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Ryan Calo @rcalo.bsky.social · Jun 29

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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Rachel Hong @rachelhong.bsky.social · Jun 30

🪩 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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Rachel Hong @rachelhong.bsky.social · Jun 30

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...

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Ryan Calo @rcalo.bsky.social · Jun 11

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 Saxon @ COLM🍁 @saxon.me · May 16

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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Kshitish Ghate @kghate.bsky.social · Apr 29

🔗 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!📷✨

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: ...

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Kyra Wilson @kyrawilson.bsky.social · Apr 25

🗞️ 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...

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

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Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · May 12

Co-Director @rcalo.bsky.social discusses the importance of not being left in the dark and the ability to make change.

The Daily of the University of Washington @thedailyuw.bsky.social · May 5

OPINION: Do we know too much? Navigating the news in a digital age (via @vatsalaxchoudhary.bsky.social )

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

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Ryan Calo @rcalo.bsky.social · Apr 8

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 👆

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Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · Apr 7

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...

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Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · Apr 7

Thank you @alondra.bsky.social for a wonderful Distinguished Lecture and important conversations with our students and faculty!

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Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · Apr 3

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!

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Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · Apr 3

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....

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Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · Apr 3

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Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · Apr 2

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...

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Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · Apr 1

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...

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.

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Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · Apr 1

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Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · Mar 31

Our Distinguished Lecture with @alondra.bsky.social is this week! Please register today!

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Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · Mar 27

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...

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Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · Mar 27

TPL Co-Director @rcalo.bsky.social comments in @politico.com on where things current stand regarding TikTok in the US.

UW News @uwnews.uw.edu · Mar 26

“This statute has already been violated,” said @rcalo.bsky.social, @ischool.uw.edu. “Because what it says is that TikTok gets banned unless the president of the U.S., by Jan. 19, certifies that they’re in good-faith negotiations to change ownership.”

Trump’s TikTok-Oracle deal could break the law — but nobody can stop him

Congressional hawks are digging in that China can’t retain any control of the app. But for two months, Trump has kept it online anyway. Now what?

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Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · Mar 26

Look who is on the @uofwa.bsky.social homepage! It is great to see TPL Co-Director @aylincaliskan.bsky.social's work being highlighted! @uwnews.bsky.social @ischool.uw.edu

ischool.uw.edu/news/2024/09...

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University of Washington Information School @ischool.uw.edu · Mar 24

The @techpolicylab.bsky.social is hosting Alondra Nelson for their Distinguished Lecture on April 3rd at 7 p.m. PT!

This event is free and open to the public. Register here: bit.ly/4c1HqkI

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Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · Mar 20

We are only two weeks away! Register today!

Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · Mar 19

You can now RSVP for the Tech Policy Lab Distinguished Lecture with Alondra Nelson (@alondra.bsky.social)! It is taking place the evening of Thursday, April 3rd at 7:00 on the @uofwa.bsky.social campus.

For more information, please visit techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event...

Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · Mar 19

You can now RSVP for the Tech Policy Lab Distinguished Lecture with Alondra Nelson (@alondra.bsky.social)! It is taking place the evening of Thursday, April 3rd at 7:00 on the @uofwa.bsky.social campus.

For more information, please visit techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event...

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Kristen Thomasen @kristenthomasen.bsky.social · Mar 12

One of the more hopeful things I have the privilege of doing right now is organizing to bring wonderful people together from across multiple continents to talk critically about the intersection of law and robots (and AI).

Register now. Just over 3 weeks until We Robot 2025!! www.werobot2025.ca

We Robot Conference 2025

www.werobot2025.ca

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