Jose A. Guridi | Cornell University

About

I'm a Ph.D. candidate in Information Science at Cornell. Before that, I coordinated the development of Chile's first National AI Policy from inside its Ministries of Economy and Science — and watching a technology get governed in real time, with real constraints and trade-offs, is still what drives my work.

These days my research follows three questions: how countries regulate technologies they're still learning about, how AI can open up (or flatten) public participation, and how professionals actually use it once the hype fades. I work mostly in Latin America and the Global South, where I also advise UNESCO and the Inter-American Development Bank and co-founded Foresight. At Cornell I'm advised by Cristobal Cheyre, with Qian Yang and Malte Ziewitz on my committee.

News & Updates

Oct 2026 Our project "Leveraging AI to Scale Public Participation," with Maria Goula, Cristobal Cheyre, Malte Ziewitz, and Lee Humphreys, was selected for a Tier 2 AI & Society Seed Grant at Cornell University.
Sep 2026 Taught the second class, on Public Governance and AI, of the training for public servants in Uruguay organized by the Office of Planning and Budget (OPP) and UNESCO (September 30).
Sep 2026 Taught the class on Technology Trends at PUC's Diploma in Data Protection (September 21).
Sep 2026 Taught the first class, on AI Fundamentals and Ethics, of the training for public servants in Uruguay organized by the Office of Planning and Budget (OPP) and UNESCO (September 16).
Sep 2026 Taught the class on AI Governance and Chile's AI Policy at PUC's Diploma in Law and AI (September 15).