Yuyu Shen — Build With Why
I'm Yuyu. I build things, research things, and have a hard time leaving interesting questions alone. A lot of the questions I keep coming back to are about technology and human agency: what we should trust, what 'better' actually means, and how we build technology that helps people make better choices without quietly taking the human part away.
Building
Hopperlace helps people and organizations choose AI based on real-world fit — not just raw model capability, but system reliability, human-centered design and oversight, and the values behind the systems we use. Today that is expert-led evaluation and consulting; the longer-term goal is a repeatable product, methodology and decision layer.
MyCorner is designed to help people find where they belong and build stronger connections with the people, places, businesses and communities around them. Neighbourhood discovery is what's available today; local belonging and community-building are the larger vision.
Value Compass makes the institutions, incentives, power and values behind AI systems visible enough to become part of technology choice.
Research
- Deference-Aware Evaluation for Human-in-the-Loop AI Systems — poster, Technical AI Governance Research workshop, ICML 2026
- Current exploration: whether AI model behavioural fingerprints persist under different personas
- Frontier AI Governance Map
Small builds
- StayCool London — a crowdsourced map of air-conditioned places in London, built during extreme heatwaves.
- Evidence Synthesis AI
Writing
- What kind of human world do we build for the age of AI? — March 2026, originally published at kallidao.com/philosophy
Contact
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