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.

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...

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!

Excited to announce our #NAACL2025 Oral paper! 🎉✨

We carried out the largest systematic study so far to map the links between upstream choices, intrinsic bias, and downstream zero-shot performance across 131 CLIP Vision-language encoders, 26 datasets, and 55 architectures!

🔗 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!📷✨

🗞️ 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...

Congrats to soon-to-be-Dr Rachel McAmis on passing the UW @uwcse.bsky.social General Exam and advancing to candidacy. Her research, with the UW Security & Privacy Research Lab and the @techpolicylab.bsky.social, is focused on satellites and computer security

UW’s @techpolicylab.bsky.social and I invite applications for a 2-year Postdoctoral Researcher position in "AI Alignment with Ethical Principles" focusing on language technologies, societal impact, and tech policy.

Kindly share!
apply.interfolio.com/162834
Priority review deadline: 3/28/2025

📢 The survey 👇 on "intelligence" & ChatGPT is open until Jan 14. All fields are welcome, but a special invitation goes to folks in Philosophy, Psychology, HCI, Cognitive Science, CSS, and AI ethics. Please repost.

Nice article explaining unwanted bias in hiring stemming from the use of artificial intelligence with extensive quotations from @kyrawilson.bsky.social and Moninder Singh. www.ibm.com/think/news/a...

The Tech Policy Lab is delighted to announce that we will be hosting Alondra Nelson (@alondra.bsky.social) for our Distinguished Lecture the evening of Thursday, April 3rd on the UW (@uofwa.bsky.social) campus.

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

Google quietly updated their ngrams viewer again this year. The books used appear to be extremely different yet again--the rate of the words "she said" are about 60% what they were in the 20th century compared to the 2019 release, and just 20% compared to 2009. But there's a catch:

Congratulations to my friend and Tech Policy Lab co-founder Batya Friedman, recipient of the Future of Life Award for her pioneering work in Value Sensitive Design. ischool.uw.edu/news/2024/12...

I'm honored to receive the NSF CAREER Award to research the societal impact of associations and biases in generative AI and align AI with ethical principles to reduce harm and benefit all. I'm deeply grateful to my collaborators, mentees, and mentors who made this work possible 🙏

#geekwire - #AI overwhelmingly prefers white and male job candidates in new test of resume-screening bias
#Blackmen fared the worst with the models preferring other candidates nearly 100% of the time.
www.geekwire.com/2024/ai-over...