michalove.studio
Cornell University · Information Science

Research

2026 Paper — STS, Infrastructure Studies

When Is a Voice an Infrastructure?

Examines voice-based AI in social services through infrastructure, care, and testing frameworks. When does a voice become infrastructure? When it breaks.

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2026 Paper — HCI, Design

Designing the Algorithmic Operator

Synthesizes telephone operator history, crisis hotline practices, and 26 design principles for voice AI. Each interaction is treated as a care relationship, not a transaction.

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2026 Paper — Critical Computing, STS, AI Ethics

The Age of Sovereign AI

A reflection on building AI for community care during political crisis. Non-technical — focused on ethical and intellectual commitments rather than implementation details.

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2024 Papers — Cancer Bioinformatics, AI

Cancer Bioinformatics

"A Quickstart for Computational People" — foundational guide covering cancer classification, treatment, datasets, and open problems. "Computational Approaches to Cancer" — literature survey across eight domains, concluding that the field's most consequential challenges are no longer primarily algorithmic but infrastructural.

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2024 Ethnographic research

Ethnography of Algorithms

Mapping the invisible algorithms that coordinate thousands of e-bike couriers through New York City streets. Rendering visible the temporal cycles of platform labor through Lefebvre's Rhythmanalysis. The body as infrastructure, the algorithm as choreographer.

2025 9-chapter manuscript

Synthetic Semiosis

An investigation of infinite semiosis in large language models through post-structuralist theory. Nine chapters: Synthetic Semiosis, Tracing Association, Machine Semiosis, Cognitive Radiation, Cognitive Decline, Societal Effects, Speculative Futures, Policy Recommendations, Design Implications.

2024 Collaborative research

Epistemic Engines

How knowledge is created and validated in human-machine systems. Applying cybernetic theory to the problem of remote group collaboration — examining feedback loops, information metabolism, and the conditions under which collective intelligence emerges.

Cornell Information Science
2026 Bilingual triptych — Design

The Little Match Girl

Hans Christian Andersen's 1845 story rendered as bilingual triptych with parallel English and Danish text and historical illustrations. The story of every person who calls a number that doesn't answer.

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