Eliza Kosoy

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Eliza Kosoy is an emerging researcher at the intersection of cognitive development, child-computer interaction, and artificial intelligence. Her work focuses on understanding how children perceive and reason about AI systems, a critically timely area as generative AI tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E become increasingly present in everyday life. In her most notable paper, "Children's Mental Models of Generative Visual and Text Based AI Models" (2024), Kosoy investigates how children aged 5–12 conceptualize, interpret, and engage with large language models and image-generation systems — a population whose relationship with AI has been largely understudied. This research sheds light on the cognitive frameworks children construct when interacting with novel AI technologies, with important implications for AI literacy education, ethical design of child-facing tools, and developmental psychology. Though her citation record is still growing, reflecting her early-career stage, Kosoy's focus on children and AI positions her at a frontier that researchers, educators, and policymakers are increasingly recognizing as essential. Her work invites the broader research community to consider how the next generation understands — and ultimately shapes their relationship with — intelligent systems.