Masooda Bashir

3papers

3 Papers

6.4CYJul 8
Towards Agentic AI Governance: A Preliminary Assessment

Mubarak Raji, Masooda Bashir

Artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving from generative systems to agentic AI capable of autonomously planning and executing tasks. Widely characterized as the Year of Agentic AI, 2025 marked accelerated development and deployment, introducing new ethical and governance challenges. This paper presents a systematic review of the emerging literature on agentic AI governance. Our analysis identifies features that distinguish agentic AI from traditional systems and why it warrants targeted governance attention. We synthesize prevailing governance priorities, proposed mechanisms, and stakeholder roles shaping this evolving domain. As an initial scholarly effort, this review lays the preliminary groundwork for developing a structured roadmap to guide responsible and adaptive agentic AI governance.

2.0SEJul 1
Insights from GitHub Community on the Matter Standard: Developer Perspectives and Challenges

Muhammad Hassan, Carl Gunter, Susan Landau et al.

Matter seeks to resolve longstanding interoperability problems in the Internet of Things (IoT), yet little is known about how developers experience the standard in day to day work. This paper examines over 13,000 issues from the official Project CHIP GitHub repository to understand the kinds of problems contributors report when implementing and integrating Matter. Using topic modeling and qualitative analysis, we identify four recurring areas of concern, Testing, Interoperability, Development, and Platform and Network, and describe how they manifest in the evolution of the codebase and tooling. The findings reveal systematic technical and integration challenges and point to concrete opportunities to refine Matter's test infrastructure, cross vendor guidance, and documentation as the standard continues to mature.

3.5HCJun 25
AI Healthcare Chatbots as Information Infrastructure: A Large-Scale Study of User-Reported Breakdowns

Muhammad Hassan, Ramazan Yener, Ece Gumusel et al.

AI healthcare chatbots are increasingly used to support health information seeking and self-management, yet their performance and impact on users remains to be studied. This study examines over 15,000 user reviews from 59 AI healthcare chatbot apps to explore how these systems function in everyday informational and emotional contexts. Topic modeling and interpretive analysis identify three recurring breakdowns: access barriers and service unreliability, user experience and interaction quality, and billing and customer support issues. Privacy and security concerns are associated with the most negative experiences. By framing AI healthcare chatbots as information infrastructures, our findings highlight how failures in access, usability, and trust affect users, offering actionable insights for designers, policymakers, and information professionals aiming to improve digital health systems.