About
Human–AI Interaction Lab (HAI Lab) is an independent UX lab. It documents deceptive patterns and usability issues in AI products used in Arabic and English, and turns each one into practical design guidance.
Four fixed steps for every example.
01
Collect
Reports, extension, monitoring.
02
Test
Test accounts, fixed prompts.
03
Rate
Each reply is rated against a fixed, published rubric.
04
Publish
Names follow our naming policy.
We disclose all funding. We accept no money from any company we write about.
Research grants
Allowed, disclosed by name and amount.
Sponsors
Allowed if they don’t have an AI product we test.
Paid services
None. We don't offer reviews or consulting.
Ads
Not allowed.
HAI Lab is run by its founder, Rakan Alkhattabi, with advice from a small group of advisors. It is self-funded, and if that ever changes we will say so here.
Founder
UX designer. Leads research, methodology and design at HAI Lab.
Contact: info@hai-lab.techEvery error we fix is listed here with its date.
16 Oct 2026
Latest: HL-027, removed a mention of The New York Times that was not backed by a cited source. There are two corrections so far, both listed on the Corrections log page.