Aylin Kamelia Caliskan @aylincaliskan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Who decides what counts as progress in AI, Ethics, and Society? Nominations are open for (Senior) Program Committee members for the 9th AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, to be in Malmö, Sweden, October 12–14, 2026. Shape the field! #AI #AIethics docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 021
Reposted by Aylin Kamelia CaliskanKyra Wilson @kyrawilson.bsky.social · 21/11/2025We know AI is biased, but what does that do to people's hiring decisions? (Spoiler alert: nothing good) To address this, @aylincaliskan.bsky.social and I wrote about legal implications and policy suggestions to protect people's rights and autonomy @brookings.edu www.brookings.edu/articles/ais...urldefense.comAI's threat to individual autonomy in hiring decisions | BrookingsKyra Wilson and Aylin Caliskan discuss new research on AI's influence in decision-making and what this portends for policymakers. 081
Reposted by Aylin Kamelia CaliskanKyra Wilson @kyrawilson.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Thanks to @uwnews.uw.edu for covering my + @aylincaliskan.bsky.social's recent work published at AIES 2025! www.washington.edu/news/2025/11...washington.eduPeople mirror AI systems’ hiring biases, study findsIn a new UW study, 528 participants worked with simulated AI systems to select job candidates. The researchers simulated different levels of racial biases for resumes from white, Black, Hispanic and..... 0107
Reposted by Aylin Kamelia CaliskanKshitish Ghate @kghate.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Work done with amazing collaborators 🙏 @andyliu.bsky.social @devanshrjain.bsky.social @taylor-sorensen.bsky.social @atoosakz.bsky.social @aylincaliskan.bsky.social @monadiab77.bsky.social @maartensap.bsky.social 051
Aylin Kamelia Caliskan @aylincaliskan.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Honored 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. 3133
Reposted by Aylin Kamelia CaliskanRyan Calo @rcalo.bsky.social · 30/06/2025I 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... 1520157
Reposted by Aylin Kamelia CaliskanMichael Saxon @saxon.me · 16/05/2025Michael 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! 3292
Reposted by Aylin Kamelia CaliskanKshitish Ghate @kghate.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Excited 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! 1216
Reposted by Aylin Kamelia CaliskanKshitish Ghate @kghate.bsky.social · 29/04/2025🔗 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!📷✨aclanthology.orgIntrinsic Bias is Predicted by Pretraining Data and Correlates with Downstream Performance in Vision-Language EncodersKshitish 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: ... 043
Reposted by Aylin Kamelia CaliskanKyra Wilson @kyrawilson.bsky.social · 25/04/2025🗞️ 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...brookings.eduGender, race, and intersectional bias in AI resume screening via language model retrievalKyra Wilson and Aylin Caliskan examine gender, race, and intersectional bias in AI resume screening and suggest protective policies. 164
Reposted by Aylin Kamelia CaliskanYoshi Kohno @yoshikohno.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Congrats 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 061
Aylin Kamelia Caliskan @aylincaliskan.bsky.social · 19/02/2025UW’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: 3/28/2025apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 01010
Reposted by Aylin Kamelia CaliskanAnna Rogers @annarogers.bsky.social · 06/01/2025📢 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. 03322
Reposted by Aylin Kamelia CaliskanKush Varshney कुश वार्ष्णेय @krvarshney.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Nice 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...ibm.comHow AI can help the recruitment process—without hurting it | IBMAI agents for recruiters are time-savers—but experts caution that developers need to make sure they're unbiased. Find out what data scientists and engineers are doing to mitigate bias in AI-driven rec... 083
Reposted by Aylin Kamelia CaliskanTech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · 12/12/2024The 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.... 0239
Reposted by Aylin Kamelia CaliskanBen Schmidt @bschmidt.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Google 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: 521579
Reposted by Aylin Kamelia CaliskanRyan Calo @rcalo.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Congratulations 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...ischool.uw.eduBatya Friedman receives Future of Life AwardTrained as a computer scientist in the late 1970s, Batya Friedman has been asking questions about how to live well in the world and how to treat people wit... 095
Aylin Kamelia Caliskan @aylincaliskan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024I'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 🙏 4281
Reposted by Aylin Kamelia CaliskanThisDay @thisday.bsky.social · 03/11/2024#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...geekwire.comAI overwhelmingly prefers white and male job candidates in new test of resume-screening biasKyra Wilson, left, University of Washington doctoral student in the Information School and Aylin Caliskan, a UW assistant professor in the iSchool. (UW 013