Independent research initiative

Every interaction with AI begins with a human decision.

SAGE studies how people make better decisions with artificial intelligence—and how those decisions shape quality, trust, learning, productivity, and sustainability.

The premise

AI is advancing rapidly.

But every outcome still begins with human choices: the question we ask, the answer we trust, the information we verify, and the moment we decide whether AI should assist—or whether human judgment should lead.

SAGE exists to study those choices and help improve them.

Research agenda

From sustainable AI use to better human judgment.

SAGE WORKING PAPER 001
The Human Decision Point
Reducing AI's environmental impact through better human–AI decision making.
IN DEVELOPMENT · 2026

First publication

Working Paper No. 001

Our first paper examines whether small changes in how people interact with AI can reduce computational waste while preserving useful outcomes.

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Founding reflection

Why Green AI became SAGE.

A sustainability project led to a larger question: how can people make better decisions with AI?

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Meet the founder

Built from a question about better decisions.

After more than two decades in commercial leadership across Asia and North America, Praveen Gangaraju founded SAGE to explore a new question: how can people make better decisions with AI?

The initiative began with Green AI research at UCLA Anderson and is growing into a broader platform for practical, evidence-led work on human–AI decision making.

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