I invent new technologies and user experiences for privacy & human-AI interaction. Prof of Engineering at TAU.https://bsky.app/profile/eranto.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/eranto.bsky.social/post/3mwnkhrgack2mTheMarker just published its latest “40 Under 40” list. It got me thinking: are they actually that promising? I set Claude Code loose on a preliminary (and limited) analysis of whether the people featured in two lists over the years actually lived up to the promise. https://claude.ai/artifact/FZoxUxA7NAz56vyEjPY6bb?sk=N2nLtDBR-_m2aoAiKev1uw29 Sep 2026 09:50 +0000at://did:plc:cc6lft3eqngbugwfpgs44ndo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwnkhrgack2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/eranto.bsky.social/post/3mwkpgitdtk2mI joined Guy Rolnik on TheMarker's podcast to talk about AI, the end of the world, privacy, and regulation. We discussed the problems in doomer discourse and what happens to privacy and our rights over our own work in an AI world. Have a listen! https://open.spotify.com/episode/38bpOVE82GGAjAzhJKwXNz?si=rOdq2YAIRo253bsXOKQItg28 Sep 2026 06:40 +0000at://did:plc:cc6lft3eqngbugwfpgs44ndo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwkpgitdtk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/eranto.bsky.social/post/3mvozswwk722lReally happy to see my PhD student Vanessa Budde’s work recognized with a Short Paper Honorable Mention at MuC 2026 🎉. Our paper looks at how people experience harmful chatbot interactions: from manipulation and behavioral steering to boundary violations. toch.tau.ac.il/3924-2/17 Sep 2026 06:32 +0000at://did:plc:cc6lft3eqngbugwfpgs44ndo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvozswwk722lhttps://bsky.app/profile/eranto.bsky.social/post/3mvl264ulxc2nCongratulations to Michael Khavkin (my Ph.D. student) on receiving the Ein-Dor Student Research Award! The award, by ILAIS, was received for our paper “Beyond the Privacy-Utility Trade-Off: How User Disclosure Decisions Shape Information Systems Under Differential Privacy."15 Sep 2026 16:27 +0000at://did:plc:cc6lft3eqngbugwfpgs44ndo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvl264ulxc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/eranto.bsky.social/post/3mq2b6l4sx22aClaude Code is powerful, but as your projects pile up, it's hard to track everything across terminal sessions. Understudy is an open-source layer on top of Claude Code that makes it act less like a tool you drive and more like an assistant that keeps work moving on its own. 🧵 1/707 Jul 2026 09:12 +0000at://did:plc:cc6lft3eqngbugwfpgs44ndo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq2b6l4sx22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/eranto.bsky.social/post/3ml6binmfvs2tSuper proud of my PhD student Danielle Movsowitz Davidow, for giving her research, “The Blockchain Privacy Paradox: Perceptions of Privacy Coins,” at the 13th Privacy Conference at Tel Aviv University. >>06 May 2026 08:22 +0000at://did:plc:cc6lft3eqngbugwfpgs44ndo/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6binmfvs2thttps://bsky.app/profile/eranto.bsky.social/post/3mirft5bqm22nWhile driving out of Tel Aviv with my kids during a missile alarm, I found myself searching for a roadside shelter and coming up empty. That led me to ask: what would it take to ensure that drivers on intercity roads can reach a shelter within 5 minutes? >> https://eranto.github.io/shelter_placement/05 Apr 2026 18:44 +0000at://did:plc:cc6lft3eqngbugwfpgs44ndo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mirft5bqm22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/eranto.bsky.social/post/3mi23o3crt22bWhile we were in the shelter, I received an email announcing that my paper, co-authored with Bar Ifrah (whom I supervised on a master’s project) and @birnhack.bsky.social, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Documentation >>27 Mar 2026 12:11 +0000at://did:plc:cc6lft3eqngbugwfpgs44ndo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi23o3crt22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/eranto.bsky.social/post/3mhpncqicus2aThe game Eternal Afternoon by Alex Klexber is perfect for these end times. A kid living in some generic housing block has 20 minutes before the world is destroyed in a giant wave. How do you pass the time in the last 20 minutes of your life? Again and again? https://store.steampowered.com/app/3924170/Eternal_Afternoon/23 Mar 2026 08:28 +0000at://did:plc:cc6lft3eqngbugwfpgs44ndo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhpncqicus2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/eranto.bsky.social/post/3mfowssmmys2iOpen-access publishing models allow well-funded academic institutions (such as my university) to use their financial resources and purchasing power to give their faculty an unfair advantage in the number of publications and citations. Isn't pay-to-publish more harmful than pay-to-read?25 Feb 2026 14:55 +0000at://did:plc:cc6lft3eqngbugwfpgs44ndo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfowssmmys2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/eranto.bsky.social/post/3mdgj6qq7b22qOpenAI is in the big Latex business now https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2016209462621831448?s=2027 Jan 2026 19:39 +0000at://did:plc:cc6lft3eqngbugwfpgs44ndo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdgj6qq7b22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/eranto.bsky.social/post/3md3iwrih5c2zWe’re happy to announce that our paper, “Place Matters: Neighborhood Effects on Smart City Service Adoption,” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Urban Technology. >>23 Jan 2026 10:36 +0000at://did:plc:cc6lft3eqngbugwfpgs44ndo/app.bsky.feed.post/3md3iwrih5c2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/eranto.bsky.social/post/3mciokh6axk2kSo proud of the work we’ve done in CHI’s Privacy and Security subcommittee. It was really a privilege co-chairing this subcommittee with Florian and Emilee. Sadly, our lab’s papers weren’t so lucky.15 Jan 2026 22:55 +0000at://did:plc:cc6lft3eqngbugwfpgs44ndo/app.bsky.feed.post/3mciokh6axk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/eranto.bsky.social/post/3maibkdafus2mAcademic Equinox: the moment when your Google Scholar citations from last year equal your citations this year.21 Dec 2025 08:12 +0000at://did:plc:cc6lft3eqngbugwfpgs44ndo/app.bsky.feed.post/3maibkdafus2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/eranto.bsky.social/post/3m7wnqhhjb22wThank you, Alon Zoizner, for inviting me to speak at the Communication Department seminar at the University of Haifa and for the opportunity to present, for the first time, the work by Adam Aviv, Oshrat Ayalon, and me on Kosher phone users’ perceptions of safety, privacy, and community.14 Dec 2025 08:03 +0000at://did:plc:cc6lft3eqngbugwfpgs44ndo/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7wnqhhjb22whttps://bsky.app/profile/eranto.bsky.social/post/3m5b7wxe4uk2lWorking in Israel on disinformation? (mitigating it, not spreading it). The Israeli Internet Association has a new grant (50K NIS) open to activists, initiatives, and orgs to develop new solutions. I'm on the board of the committee (w @avischarf.bsky.social etc) https://www.isoc.org.il/disinformation-resilience-israel/applications-for-development-grants-for-organizations-initiatives-and-activities-resilience-to-disinformation10 Nov 2025 08:39 +0000at://did:plc:cc6lft3eqngbugwfpgs44ndo/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5b7wxe4uk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/eranto.bsky.social/post/3m4n7fj6oss2bI was interviewed in Haaretz’s economics paper, TheMarker, about the job market in Industrial Engineering and Management jobs and the effects of AI on junior jobs in this market >> https://www.themarker.com/career/2025-10-29/ty-article/.highlight/0000019a-2ac7-d4aa-a9fa-2ac71a5a000002 Nov 2025 09:36 +0000at://did:plc:cc6lft3eqngbugwfpgs44ndo/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4n7fj6oss2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/eranto.bsky.social/post/3m4fb5f4pfc2uIt doesn’t make much sense to move to Bluesky but then to not use it pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40637733/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40637733/30 Oct 2025 05:46 +0000at://did:plc:cc6lft3eqngbugwfpgs44ndo/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4fb5f4pfc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/eranto.bsky.social/post/3m3pi54cgj22mWe were awarded a very exciting new grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) with colleagues Adam Aviv from The George Washington University and Oshrat Ayalon from the University of Haifa. >>21 Oct 2025 13:53 +0000at://did:plc:cc6lft3eqngbugwfpgs44ndo/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3pi54cgj22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/eranto.bsky.social/post/3m3joxwsxuc2rWe have a new paper just published in Information, Communication & Society. Maayan Cohen and I are looking at how the discourse around algorithmic bias was taken up, amplified, and reframed across ideological lines in the launch of ChatGPT 3.5. >> https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2025.256104619 Oct 2025 06:39 +0000at://did:plc:cc6lft3eqngbugwfpgs44ndo/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3joxwsxuc2r