Tech Policy Lab
@techpolicylab.bsky.social
A unique collaboration at the University of Washington enhancing technology policy through research, education, and thought leadership.
This Thursday!
@techpolicylab.bsky.social Co-Director @rcalo.bsky.social will be presenting on Law & Technology: A Methodical Approach as a part of @uw-cnc.bsky.social's Future Tense Seminar Series.
RSVP today!
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@techpolicylab.bsky.social Co-Director @rcalo.bsky.social will be presenting on Law & Technology: A Methodical Approach as a part of @uw-cnc.bsky.social's Future Tense Seminar Series.
RSVP today!
www.eventbrite.com/e/future-ten...
Future Tense: Ryan Calo
Join us for a discussion with UW Law professor Ryan Calo on his new book discussing legal approaches to guide emerging technology
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February 2, 2026 at 9:09 PM
This Thursday!
@techpolicylab.bsky.social Co-Director @rcalo.bsky.social will be presenting on Law & Technology: A Methodical Approach as a part of @uw-cnc.bsky.social's Future Tense Seminar Series.
RSVP today!
www.eventbrite.com/e/future-ten...
@techpolicylab.bsky.social Co-Director @rcalo.bsky.social will be presenting on Law & Technology: A Methodical Approach as a part of @uw-cnc.bsky.social's Future Tense Seminar Series.
RSVP today!
www.eventbrite.com/e/future-ten...
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The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) welcomed Ryan Calo to their board. Professor Calo teaches in both @uwlaw.bsky.social and the Information School, and co-founded @techpolicylab.bsky.social & @cip.uw.edu. He's testified before the Senate 4x. @rcalo.bsky.social epic.org/press-releas...
PRESS RELEASE: EPIC Welcomes Three Distinguished Members to its Board of Directors
epic.org
January 5, 2026 at 8:53 PM
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) welcomed Ryan Calo to their board. Professor Calo teaches in both @uwlaw.bsky.social and the Information School, and co-founded @techpolicylab.bsky.social & @cip.uw.edu. He's testified before the Senate 4x. @rcalo.bsky.social epic.org/press-releas...
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Tonight!
Giving a talk in #Seattle at Ada’s Technical Books Monday, December 8. Please join & share? Thanks! My book is on backorder 💅 but Ada’s has copies in stock. 😉
December 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Tonight!
October 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Tomorrow! You can still register here: techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event...
October 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Tomorrow! You can still register here: techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event...
Please join the Tech Policy Lab & Society + Technology on Thursday, October 23rd for a book salon featuring 3 new books authored by 3 @uofwa.bsky.social faculty members (@rcalo.bsky.social, @katharinareinecke.bsky.social, @leahcecc.bsky.social).
Register Here: techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event...
Register Here: techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event...
October 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Please join the Tech Policy Lab & Society + Technology on Thursday, October 23rd for a book salon featuring 3 new books authored by 3 @uofwa.bsky.social faculty members (@rcalo.bsky.social, @katharinareinecke.bsky.social, @leahcecc.bsky.social).
Register Here: techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event...
Register Here: techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event...
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Honored to be promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Washington! Grateful to my brilliant mentees, students, collaborators, mentors & @techpolicylab.bsky.social for advancing research in AI & Ethics together—and for the invaluable academic freedom to keep shaping trustworthy AI.
September 16, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Honored to be promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Washington! Grateful to my brilliant mentees, students, collaborators, mentors & @techpolicylab.bsky.social for advancing research in AI & Ethics together—and for the invaluable academic freedom to keep shaping trustworthy AI.
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Technology is not inevitable. It's contingent.
We don't have to accept technology in the exact same form in which it's being sold to us, says Professor Ryan Calo in an interview with @diplomaatia.bsky.social.
@rcalo.bsky.social @techpolicylab.bsky.social @cip.uw.edu
We don't have to accept technology in the exact same form in which it's being sold to us, says Professor Ryan Calo in an interview with @diplomaatia.bsky.social.
@rcalo.bsky.social @techpolicylab.bsky.social @cip.uw.edu
Playing the shell game with technology: AI, regulation, responsibility, and values - ICDS
Professor Ryan Calo, a legal scholar and co-founder of the influential Tech Policy Lab at the University of Washington, challenges the dominant narrative that artificial intelligence is too complex an...
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August 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Technology is not inevitable. It's contingent.
We don't have to accept technology in the exact same form in which it's being sold to us, says Professor Ryan Calo in an interview with @diplomaatia.bsky.social.
@rcalo.bsky.social @techpolicylab.bsky.social @cip.uw.edu
We don't have to accept technology in the exact same form in which it's being sold to us, says Professor Ryan Calo in an interview with @diplomaatia.bsky.social.
@rcalo.bsky.social @techpolicylab.bsky.social @cip.uw.edu
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I am so damn excited to share my new book, Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach. Full of stories and priced at $40, this book explains why law finds technology so difficult to regulate, and what to do about it. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
June 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I am so damn excited to share my new book, Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach. Full of stories and priced at $40, this book explains why law finds technology so difficult to regulate, and what to do about it. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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🪩 For more results and in-depth discussion, please check out our paper with the incredible @jevan.bsky.social @willie-agnew.bsky.social @imaadhuda @yoshikohno.bsky.social @jamiemmt.bsky.social @techpolicylab.bsky.social at arxiv.org/abs/2506.17185 (14/14)
A Common Pool of Privacy Problems: Legal and Technical Lessons from a Large-Scale Web-Scraped Machine Learning Dataset
We investigate the contents of web-scraped data for training AI systems, at sizes where human dataset curators and compilers no longer manually annotate every sample. Building off of prior privacy con...
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June 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
🪩 For more results and in-depth discussion, please check out our paper with the incredible @jevan.bsky.social @willie-agnew.bsky.social @imaadhuda @yoshikohno.bsky.social @jamiemmt.bsky.social @techpolicylab.bsky.social at arxiv.org/abs/2506.17185 (14/14)
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New paper alert! In a collaboration between computer scientists and legal scholars, we find a significant amount of PII in a common AI training dataset and conduct a legal analysis showing that these issues put web-scale datasets in tension with existing privacy law. [🧵1/N] arxiv.org/abs/2506.17185
A Common Pool of Privacy Problems: Legal and Technical Lessons from a Large-Scale Web-Scraped Machine Learning Dataset
We investigate the contents of web-scraped data for training AI systems, at sizes where human dataset curators and compilers no longer manually annotate every sample. Building off of prior privacy con...
arxiv.org
June 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
New paper alert! In a collaboration between computer scientists and legal scholars, we find a significant amount of PII in a common AI training dataset and conduct a legal analysis showing that these issues put web-scale datasets in tension with existing privacy law. [🧵1/N] arxiv.org/abs/2506.17185
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Anti-hacking laws and security standards assume the attacker is trying to bypass a security protocol. AI can get tricked instead. We wrote about this in 2018. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
June 11, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Anti-hacking laws and security standards assume the attacker is trying to bypass a security protocol. AI can get tricked instead. We wrote about this in 2018. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Michael News! I will be joining the Tech Policy Lab at the University of Washington @ischool.uw.edu and UW NLP working with @aylincaliskan.bsky.social as a postdoc in the fall, to work on situated evaluation, multimodal/lingual/cultural genAI, and new directions in safety, fairness, and alignment!
May 16, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Michael News! I will be joining the Tech Policy Lab at the University of Washington @ischool.uw.edu and UW NLP working with @aylincaliskan.bsky.social as a postdoc in the fall, to work on situated evaluation, multimodal/lingual/cultural genAI, and new directions in safety, fairness, and alignment!
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🔗 Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-l...
Work done with amazing collaborators
@isaacslaughter.bsky.social,
@kyrawilson.bsky.social, @aylincaliskan.bsky.social, and @monadiab77.bsky.social!
Catch our Oral presentation at Ballroom B, Thursday, May 1st, 14:00-15:30 pm!📷✨
Work done with amazing collaborators
@isaacslaughter.bsky.social,
@kyrawilson.bsky.social, @aylincaliskan.bsky.social, and @monadiab77.bsky.social!
Catch our Oral presentation at Ballroom B, Thursday, May 1st, 14:00-15:30 pm!📷✨
Intrinsic Bias is Predicted by Pretraining Data and Correlates with Downstream Performance in Vision-Language Encoders
Kshitish Ghate, Isaac Slaughter, Kyra Wilson, Mona T. Diab, Aylin Caliskan. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ...
aclanthology.org
April 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
🔗 Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-l...
Work done with amazing collaborators
@isaacslaughter.bsky.social,
@kyrawilson.bsky.social, @aylincaliskan.bsky.social, and @monadiab77.bsky.social!
Catch our Oral presentation at Ballroom B, Thursday, May 1st, 14:00-15:30 pm!📷✨
Work done with amazing collaborators
@isaacslaughter.bsky.social,
@kyrawilson.bsky.social, @aylincaliskan.bsky.social, and @monadiab77.bsky.social!
Catch our Oral presentation at Ballroom B, Thursday, May 1st, 14:00-15:30 pm!📷✨
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🗞️ Hot off the press! 🗞️
@aylincaliskan.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post about how to make resume screening with AI more equitable based findings from our work presented at AIES in 2024. Major takeaways ⬇️ (1/6)
www.brookings.edu/articles/gen...
@aylincaliskan.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post about how to make resume screening with AI more equitable based findings from our work presented at AIES in 2024. Major takeaways ⬇️ (1/6)
www.brookings.edu/articles/gen...
Gender, race, and intersectional bias in AI resume screening via language model retrieval
Kyra Wilson and Aylin Caliskan examine gender, race, and intersectional bias in AI resume screening and suggest protective policies.
www.brookings.edu
April 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
🗞️ Hot off the press! 🗞️
@aylincaliskan.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post about how to make resume screening with AI more equitable based findings from our work presented at AIES in 2024. Major takeaways ⬇️ (1/6)
www.brookings.edu/articles/gen...
@aylincaliskan.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post about how to make resume screening with AI more equitable based findings from our work presented at AIES in 2024. Major takeaways ⬇️ (1/6)
www.brookings.edu/articles/gen...
Co-Director @rcalo.bsky.social discusses the importance of not being left in the dark and the ability to make change.
OPINION: Do we know too much? Navigating the news in a digital age (via @vatsalaxchoudhary.bsky.social )
www.dailyuw.com/opinion/do-w...
www.dailyuw.com/opinion/do-w...
Do we know too much?
So, it’s no surprise that many of us feel emotionally drained since exposure to excessive information can lead to a mix of emotions like confusion, stress, and even apathy.
www.dailyuw.com
May 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Co-Director @rcalo.bsky.social discusses the importance of not being left in the dark and the ability to make change.
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I'm really proud of the institutions we've built up at the University of Washington to address the role of technology in society.
Center for an Informed Public www.cip.uw.edu
Tech Policy Lab techpolicylab.uw.edu
Society + Technology depts.washington.edu/societytech/...
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Center for an Informed Public www.cip.uw.edu
Tech Policy Lab techpolicylab.uw.edu
Society + Technology depts.washington.edu/societytech/...
Learn more 👆
April 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I'm really proud of the institutions we've built up at the University of Washington to address the role of technology in society.
Center for an Informed Public www.cip.uw.edu
Tech Policy Lab techpolicylab.uw.edu
Society + Technology depts.washington.edu/societytech/...
Learn more 👆
Center for an Informed Public www.cip.uw.edu
Tech Policy Lab techpolicylab.uw.edu
Society + Technology depts.washington.edu/societytech/...
Learn more 👆
The @techpolicylab.bsky.social is celebrating 10 years on Monday, May 5th! The event is open to all past and current members of the Tech Policy Lab. We were able to secure a special rate on rooms at the Graduate: book.passkey.com/e/51006789.
More info- techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event...
More info- techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event...
April 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The @techpolicylab.bsky.social is celebrating 10 years on Monday, May 5th! The event is open to all past and current members of the Tech Policy Lab. We were able to secure a special rate on rooms at the Graduate: book.passkey.com/e/51006789.
More info- techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event...
More info- techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event...
Thank you @alondra.bsky.social for a wonderful Distinguished Lecture and important conversations with our students and faculty!
April 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Thank you @alondra.bsky.social for a wonderful Distinguished Lecture and important conversations with our students and faculty!
We love our interns! They've been tabling all week promoting TONIGHT's Distinguished Lecture with @alondra.bsky.social! Hope to see you at 7:00!
April 3, 2025 at 11:32 PM
We love our interns! They've been tabling all week promoting TONIGHT's Distinguished Lecture with @alondra.bsky.social! Hope to see you at 7:00!
Our Distinguished Lecture with @alondra.bsky.social is TODAY! 7:00 PM on the @uofwa.bsky.social campus in Kane Hall. You can still register today at techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event....
April 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Our Distinguished Lecture with @alondra.bsky.social is TODAY! 7:00 PM on the @uofwa.bsky.social campus in Kane Hall. You can still register today at techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event....
Our Distinguished Lecture with @alondra.bsky.social is tomorrow! Register today! Come check out the Cherry Trees while you are on campus.
Register here: techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event...
Register here: techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event...
April 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Our Distinguished Lecture with @alondra.bsky.social is tomorrow! Register today! Come check out the Cherry Trees while you are on campus.
Register here: techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event...
Register here: techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event...
Co-Director @aylincaliskan.bsky.social and Faculty Associate @emilymbender.bsky.social were recognized by @brookings.edu for being an important (un)Hidden Figures in AI.
www.brookings.edu/articles/rec...
www.brookings.edu/articles/rec...
Recognizing the (un)Hidden Figures in AI
The AI Equity Lab highlights leading voices and figures in artificial intelligence in recognition of Women's History Month.
www.brookings.edu
April 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Co-Director @aylincaliskan.bsky.social and Faculty Associate @emilymbender.bsky.social were recognized by @brookings.edu for being an important (un)Hidden Figures in AI.
www.brookings.edu/articles/rec...
www.brookings.edu/articles/rec...
Our Distinguished Lecture with @alondra.bsky.social is this week! Please register today!
techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event...
techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event...
March 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Our Distinguished Lecture with @alondra.bsky.social is this week! Please register today!
techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event...
techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event...
We are only one week away from our Distinguished Lecture w/ Alondra Nelson (@alondra.bsky.social)!
Algorithmic Agnotology: On AI, Ignorance, and Power
Please join us Thursday, April 3rd at 7:00 PM on the @uofwa.bsky.social campus!
For more info & to register: techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event...
Algorithmic Agnotology: On AI, Ignorance, and Power
Please join us Thursday, April 3rd at 7:00 PM on the @uofwa.bsky.social campus!
For more info & to register: techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event...
March 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
We are only one week away from our Distinguished Lecture w/ Alondra Nelson (@alondra.bsky.social)!
Algorithmic Agnotology: On AI, Ignorance, and Power
Please join us Thursday, April 3rd at 7:00 PM on the @uofwa.bsky.social campus!
For more info & to register: techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event...
Algorithmic Agnotology: On AI, Ignorance, and Power
Please join us Thursday, April 3rd at 7:00 PM on the @uofwa.bsky.social campus!
For more info & to register: techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event...