Cori Faklaris
@heycori1.bsky.social
She/her. UNC Charlotte assistant prof. HCI/security researcher and ex-journalist. Current events for me are sometimes posted at https://corifaklaris.com. Mastodon: https://hci.social/@Heycori
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Cori Faklaris
@heycori1.bsky.social
· Mar 28
My latest blog post: how I am adapting the role-play paper-reading format for my Human-Centered AI class. lnkd.in/eABfatUc
Tl;dr - I'm mostly satisfied with how this new-to-me teaching method is benefiting students, but some aspects will need tweaking.
Tl;dr - I'm mostly satisfied with how this new-to-me teaching method is benefiting students, but some aspects will need tweaking.
As an educator, I've moved from "How can I encourage AI?" to "How can they use it responsibly?"
Read my latest syllabus policy and my reflections here: blog.corifaklaris.com/2025/11/02/e...
Read my latest syllabus policy and my reflections here: blog.corifaklaris.com/2025/11/02/e...
Evolution of My AI Syllabus Policy and Experience - Cori Faklaris' blog - HeyCori
I field a lot of questions from people outside academia about what I think of Generative AI (GenAI or just “AI”) in education. I am fortunate to teach upper-level electives for undergraduates and grad...
blog.corifaklaris.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
As an educator, I've moved from "How can I encourage AI?" to "How can they use it responsibly?"
Read my latest syllabus policy and my reflections here: blog.corifaklaris.com/2025/11/02/e...
Read my latest syllabus policy and my reflections here: blog.corifaklaris.com/2025/11/02/e...
This year’s meeting of the big anti-mobile fraud group (M3AAWG) is right here in Charlotte. Lucky to snag a speaker spot and guest registration! Here, listening to a woman from the Netflix “Tinder Swindler” doc recount her ordeal.
October 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This year’s meeting of the big anti-mobile fraud group (M3AAWG) is right here in Charlotte. Lucky to snag a speaker spot and guest registration! Here, listening to a woman from the Netflix “Tinder Swindler” doc recount her ordeal.
Nice to have some good news for a change! www.charlotteobserver.com/news/busines...
Honeywell targets UNC Charlotte STEM students in $10M partnership deal
The Charlotte company’s money aims to jumpstart a tech pipeline.
www.charlotteobserver.com
September 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Nice to have some good news for a change! www.charlotteobserver.com/news/busines...
Are you interested in - or even, teaching - Usable Security and Privacy? Check out my lectures on YouTube. I have been re-recording and posting these to a playlist. Subscribe! youtu.be/O4nz5cyGLtg?...
#usablesecurity #usableprivacy #cybersecurity #onlineprivacy
#usablesecurity #usableprivacy #cybersecurity #onlineprivacy
Usable Security
YouTube video by Cori Faklaris
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August 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Are you interested in - or even, teaching - Usable Security and Privacy? Check out my lectures on YouTube. I have been re-recording and posting these to a playlist. Subscribe! youtu.be/O4nz5cyGLtg?...
#usablesecurity #usableprivacy #cybersecurity #onlineprivacy
#usablesecurity #usableprivacy #cybersecurity #onlineprivacy
In Seattle for the 21st Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (#SOUPS2025)! I will moderate a session on Internet of Things / Smart Home papers and present a poster on user-tested ideas for trust indicators in mobile messaging. lnkd.in/eNYCeqnm
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August 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
In Seattle for the 21st Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (#SOUPS2025)! I will moderate a session on Internet of Things / Smart Home papers and present a poster on user-tested ideas for trust indicators in mobile messaging. lnkd.in/eNYCeqnm
We had a busy summer in the SPEX Lab! Thanks to UNC Charlotte Office of Undergrad Research and Center for STEM Education, the NSF REU program, and Army Educational Opportunities Program for sponsoring undergrad and HS students. www.facebook.com/share/p/175H...
July 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
We had a busy summer in the SPEX Lab! Thanks to UNC Charlotte Office of Undergrad Research and Center for STEM Education, the NSF REU program, and Army Educational Opportunities Program for sponsoring undergrad and HS students. www.facebook.com/share/p/175H...
New blog post on my busy 2025 - publishing on S&P concerns of educational migrants, smishing indicators, visualizing bias in image generation, and other topics. blog.corifaklaris.com/2025/06/02/f...
Five (!) new papers published in the first half of 2025 - Cori Faklaris' blog - HeyCori
I’m a fan of the African (maybe?) proverb: “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” In research, collaboration – bringing together different perspectives and shared reso...
blog.corifaklaris.com
June 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
New blog post on my busy 2025 - publishing on S&P concerns of educational migrants, smishing indicators, visualizing bias in image generation, and other topics. blog.corifaklaris.com/2025/06/02/f...
Reposted by Cori Faklaris
I have been logged out of my toothbrush.
May 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I have been logged out of my toothbrush.
I ❤️this sent w/a SMS texted code: “If someone asks you for this code STOP; it's a SCAM. We will NEVER contact you for this code. Only enter it online to login.”
Gets your attention.
Clearly worded.
Informational.
Fits in the message/preview window.
💯
#smishing #phishing #cybersecurity
Gets your attention.
Clearly worded.
Informational.
Fits in the message/preview window.
💯
#smishing #phishing #cybersecurity
May 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I ❤️this sent w/a SMS texted code: “If someone asks you for this code STOP; it's a SCAM. We will NEVER contact you for this code. Only enter it online to login.”
Gets your attention.
Clearly worded.
Informational.
Fits in the message/preview window.
💯
#smishing #phishing #cybersecurity
Gets your attention.
Clearly worded.
Informational.
Fits in the message/preview window.
💯
#smishing #phishing #cybersecurity
Lyft’s Priority Pickuo is a waste of money.
May 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Lyft’s Priority Pickuo is a waste of money.
I tell people: Talk the AI through what you want done as if it is an intern. (Because it basically is.)
Many of the most important “prompt engineering” skills are just management skills: clearly understanding the task to be done and what information is needed to do it; explaining the task to the AI; giving useful feedback to improve outputs; & generalizing lessons learned into a process.
May 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I tell people: Talk the AI through what you want done as if it is an intern. (Because it basically is.)
Reposted by Cori Faklaris
Racist and sexist roots in the cancellation of NSF grants under Trump:
Grants with female PIs canceled 2x more than men
Grants with Black PIs canceled 4x over White PIs
Grants with Hispanic PIs canceled 2x over White PIs
Grants with PIs with disabilities canceled 2x more than without
Grants with female PIs canceled 2x more than men
Grants with Black PIs canceled 4x over White PIs
Grants with Hispanic PIs canceled 2x over White PIs
Grants with PIs with disabilities canceled 2x more than without
Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF
Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress
www.science.org
May 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Racist and sexist roots in the cancellation of NSF grants under Trump:
Grants with female PIs canceled 2x more than men
Grants with Black PIs canceled 4x over White PIs
Grants with Hispanic PIs canceled 2x over White PIs
Grants with PIs with disabilities canceled 2x more than without
Grants with female PIs canceled 2x more than men
Grants with Black PIs canceled 4x over White PIs
Grants with Hispanic PIs canceled 2x over White PIs
Grants with PIs with disabilities canceled 2x more than without
I went 2 years without seeing any LLM-hallucinated references in student work. Until this past week, when I or a TA have caught six fake papers via manual inspection. One was supposedly a paper of mine!
In very related news, newer AI models show high rates of error. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...
In very related news, newer AI models show high rates of error. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...
A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse
www.nytimes.com
May 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I went 2 years without seeing any LLM-hallucinated references in student work. Until this past week, when I or a TA have caught six fake papers via manual inspection. One was supposedly a paper of mine!
In very related news, newer AI models show high rates of error. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...
In very related news, newer AI models show high rates of error. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...
What I was afraid of on Friday, when I shared that warning to download and save everything from the NSF site ...
Document posted by National Science Foundation program director on LinkedIn says not only that grants are being terminated by DOGE but that they're being deleted from databases. Presumably to make it difficult or even impossible to undo DOGE's illegal actions.
April 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
What I was afraid of on Friday, when I shared that warning to download and save everything from the NSF site ...
Reposted by Cori Faklaris
The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988
From the changemyview community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the changemyview community
tinyurl.com
April 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988
Wow. Someone at the Univ. of Zurich decided to conduct an unauthorized experiment on the Change My View subreddit. The mods are understandably pissed off. www.reddit.com/r/changemyvi...
From the changemyview community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the changemyview community
www.reddit.com
April 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Wow. Someone at the Univ. of Zurich decided to conduct an unauthorized experiment on the Change My View subreddit. The mods are understandably pissed off. www.reddit.com/r/changemyvi...
Oh brother. Apparently the Research dot gov system is imminently undergoing DOGE-ification ...
ATTENTION: REGARDING NSF
Some some suggested steps from @drkhaynes.bsky.social
They are in "Miscellaneous" on my dashboard
jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...
If anyone has other suggestions, please let me know and I will post.
Some some suggested steps from @drkhaynes.bsky.social
They are in "Miscellaneous" on my dashboard
jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...
If anyone has other suggestions, please let me know and I will post.
kermit the frog is holding a piece of paper in his hands .
ALT: kermit the frog is holding a piece of paper in his hands .
media.tenor.com
April 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Oh brother. Apparently the Research dot gov system is imminently undergoing DOGE-ification ...
I am a little baffled by this EO. They **just** canceled NSF grants about AI education. They don't want us to target subpopulations (K-12). They're killing the Education Dept., which would be the natural agency to make the initiative happen. How will this happen?
www.nextgov.com/artificial-i...
www.nextgov.com/artificial-i...
Trump unveils sweeping order to bring AI into US education
The executive order forms a new task force and leverages existing grant programs focused on improving AI education in the U.S.
www.nextgov.com
April 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I am a little baffled by this EO. They **just** canceled NSF grants about AI education. They don't want us to target subpopulations (K-12). They're killing the Education Dept., which would be the natural agency to make the initiative happen. How will this happen?
www.nextgov.com/artificial-i...
www.nextgov.com/artificial-i...
I really really really really really really really miss having an entire week (as a Phd student) to prepare my author response to #SOUPS reviewer comments.
April 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I really really really really really really really miss having an entire week (as a Phd student) to prepare my author response to #SOUPS reviewer comments.
On the smishing front: an int'l student told me that he & others @unccharlotte getting hit w the "AR-11 form" scam. Attacker claims this form was never filed (which is the uni's job), and demands money & acct data.
iss.washington.edu/alert-ar-11-...
iss.washington.edu/alert-ar-11-...
Alert! AR-11 Scam Targeting International Students - International Student Services
A warning about scammers posing as USCIS officers targeting F and J international students with fake AR-11 threats.
iss.washington.edu
March 31, 2025 at 9:04 PM
On the smishing front: an int'l student told me that he & others @unccharlotte getting hit w the "AR-11 form" scam. Attacker claims this form was never filed (which is the uni's job), and demands money & acct data.
iss.washington.edu/alert-ar-11-...
iss.washington.edu/alert-ar-11-...
My latest blog post: how I am adapting the role-play paper-reading format for my Human-Centered AI class. lnkd.in/eABfatUc
Tl;dr - I'm mostly satisfied with how this new-to-me teaching method is benefiting students, but some aspects will need tweaking.
Tl;dr - I'm mostly satisfied with how this new-to-me teaching method is benefiting students, but some aspects will need tweaking.
March 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
My latest blog post: how I am adapting the role-play paper-reading format for my Human-Centered AI class. lnkd.in/eABfatUc
Tl;dr - I'm mostly satisfied with how this new-to-me teaching method is benefiting students, but some aspects will need tweaking.
Tl;dr - I'm mostly satisfied with how this new-to-me teaching method is benefiting students, but some aspects will need tweaking.
This gets at some of my personal frustrations with both parties - their priorities are not the country but the short term future. It’s terrible for us.
Democrats Have to Stop Making Political Decisions with an Eye Towards 2026 www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/14/d...
Democrats Have to Stop Making Political Decisions with an Eye Towards 2026 www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/14/d...
Democrats Have to Stop Making Political Decisions with an Eye Towards 2026 - emptywheel
Democracy will be preserved or lost in the next three months. And democracy will be won or lost via a nonpartisan political fight over whether enough Americans want to preserve their way of life to fi...
www.emptywheel.net
March 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This gets at some of my personal frustrations with both parties - their priorities are not the country but the short term future. It’s terrible for us.
Democrats Have to Stop Making Political Decisions with an Eye Towards 2026 www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/14/d...
Democrats Have to Stop Making Political Decisions with an Eye Towards 2026 www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/14/d...
Reposted by Cori Faklaris
“I’m Not a Robot,” a darkly comic film about a woman trying to convince her computer that she is human, won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short. It is the second film released by The New Yorker to be honored with an Oscar.
The New Yorker Film “I’m Not a Robot” Wins a 2025 Academy Award
The Oscar for Best Live Action Short went to Victoria Warmerdam’s darkly comic tale about a woman who fails a series of CAPTCHA tests.
www.newyorker.com
March 3, 2025 at 3:04 AM
“I’m Not a Robot,” a darkly comic film about a woman trying to convince her computer that she is human, won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short. It is the second film released by The New Yorker to be honored with an Oscar.
Reposted by Cori Faklaris
It has come to my attention that not nearly enough of you know about Bernd das Brot, the German children's program about a clinically depressed loaf of bread who enjoys studying his wallpaper and eating gruel and whose catchphrases include "my life is hell" and "I would like to leave this show."
February 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
It has come to my attention that not nearly enough of you know about Bernd das Brot, the German children's program about a clinically depressed loaf of bread who enjoys studying his wallpaper and eating gruel and whose catchphrases include "my life is hell" and "I would like to leave this show."
It was a delight today to present on "Social Dynamics of Cybersecurity" for the Cognitive Science Institute talk series. I covered:
- SA-6 + SA-13 attitude measures
- the Security + Privacy Acceptance Framework (SPAF)
- recent work on social influences and obstacles to adoption
- SA-6 + SA-13 attitude measures
- the Security + Privacy Acceptance Framework (SPAF)
- recent work on social influences and obstacles to adoption
February 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
It was a delight today to present on "Social Dynamics of Cybersecurity" for the Cognitive Science Institute talk series. I covered:
- SA-6 + SA-13 attitude measures
- the Security + Privacy Acceptance Framework (SPAF)
- recent work on social influences and obstacles to adoption
- SA-6 + SA-13 attitude measures
- the Security + Privacy Acceptance Framework (SPAF)
- recent work on social influences and obstacles to adoption