Sudhamshu Hosamane is a rising 4th-year PhD candidate in Library and Information Science at the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers–New Brunswick. His interests are broadly in Computational Social Science and he is currently studying the impacts of AI on the general public. He has published at top social computing venues like CHI and ICWSM.

Public Comment on Federal Rules in the Age of Generative AI

Public comment is one of the most impactful ways ordinary Americans can shape government action. AI is now changing both sides of this process: citizens can use chatbots to draft credible objections or letters of support, while agencies increasingly rely on language models to manage large volumes of comments. Yet both these citizen- and agency-side changes are barely studied, let alone together. This project examines them together through two studies: one tracing how citizen commenting on federal rules, agency summaries, and final-rule justifications have changed over time, and another studying how emerging AI advocacy tools reshape citizens’ beliefs about political participation.

Sudhamshu Hosamane was selected to receive the Democracy Catalyst Fellowship.