Tech Policy Lab
@techpolicylab.bsky.social
A unique collaboration at the University of Washington enhancing technology policy through research, education, and thought leadership.
Congratulations to my friends and colleagues Batya Friedman and David Hendry on the publication of the second edition of Value Sensitive Design: Shaping Technology with Moral Imagination mitpress.mit.edu/978026255325... Such important work!
Value Sensitive Design
In the midst of technological, environmental, and social turmoil, engineers, policymakers, and designers of all kinds seek approaches to responsible innovati...
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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...
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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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
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Today at 6:00 PM PDT! Join us! techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event...
Book Salon on Tech Policy, Culture Shock, and Controversy | Tech Policy Lab
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Tech Policy Lab@techpolicylab.bsky.social · 10mo agoPlease 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...
Tomorrow! You can still register here: techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event...
Book Salon on Tech Policy, Culture Shock, and Controversy | Tech Policy Lab
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Tech Policy Lab@techpolicylab.bsky.social · 10mo agoPlease 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...
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...
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.
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
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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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...
🪩 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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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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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....
Is Tricking a Robot Hacking?
The term “hacking” has come to signify breaking into a computer system. A number of local, national, and international laws seek to hold hackers accountable for
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Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last yr.Prompt injection means email viruses are back. A researcher found a security vulnerability where you send an email with hidden instructions which when CoPilot scans the email, executes and then hides the source of the instructions. It took Microsoft 5 months to fix the issue.
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!
🔗 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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🗞️ 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.
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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 · last yr.OPINION: Do we know too much? Navigating the news in a digital age (via @vatsalaxchoudhary.bsky.social ) www.dailyuw.com/opinion/do-w...
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 👆
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...
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!
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...
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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Our Distinguished Lecture with @alondra.bsky.social is this week! Please register today! techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event...
Distinguished Lecture with Alondra Nelson | Algorithmic Agnotology: On AI, Ignorance, and Power | Tech Policy Lab
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Tech Policy Lab@techpolicylab.bsky.social · last yr.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...
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...
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 · last yr.“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.”
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...
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
We are only two weeks away! Register today!
Tech Policy Lab@techpolicylab.bsky.social · last yr.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...
