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Aylin Kamelia Caliskan

@aylincaliskan.bsky.social
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faculty.washington.edu/aylin Computer scientist • Prof @UWischool & @UWcse Co-Director @TechPolicyLab • Nonresident Senior Fellow @BrookingsInst AI & Societal Impacts: Ethics in NLP • Multimodal ML • CV • Human-AI Collaboration

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Aylin Kamelia Caliskan @aylincaliskan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Who 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...
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Kyra Wilson @kyrawilson.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
We 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...
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AI's threat to individual autonomy in hiring decisions | Brookings
Kyra Wilson and Aylin Caliskan discuss new research on AI's influence in decision-making and what this portends for policymakers.
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Kyra Wilson @kyrawilson.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Thanks to @uwnews.uw.edu for covering my + @aylincaliskan.bsky.social's recent work published at AIES 2025! www.washington.edu/news/2025/11...
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People mirror AI systems’ hiring biases, study finds
In 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.....
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Kshitish Ghate @kghate.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Work 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
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Aylin Kamelia Caliskan @aylincaliskan.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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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Ryan Calo @rcalo.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
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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Michael Saxon @saxon.me · 16/05/2025
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 · 29/04/2025
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!
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Kshitish 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!📷✨
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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 · 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...
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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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Yoshi Kohno @yoshikohno.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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
Rachel presenting a slide titled "High-level Architecture" in which a ground operator communicates with a ground station, which then communicates with a comms component on a satellite; the comms component is connected to a flight computer, as is the ADCS, power, and payload.
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Aylin Kamelia Caliskan @aylincaliskan.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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
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Anna 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.
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Kush Varshney कुश वार्ष्णेय @krvarshney.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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...
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How AI can help the recruitment process—without hurting it | IBM
AI 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...
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Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
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....
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Ben Schmidt @bschmidt.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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:
Four line charts showing the same words -- 'she said' plotted in four different corpora on the google ngrams viewer. The words are much less common in the 2019 and most recent version through the 20th century, and spike up sharply after 2000.
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Ryan Calo @rcalo.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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...
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Batya Friedman receives Future of Life Award
Trained 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...
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Aylin Kamelia Caliskan @aylincaliskan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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 🙏
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ThisDay @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...
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AI overwhelmingly prefers white and male job candidates in new test of resume-screening bias
Kyra Wilson, left, University of Washington doctoral student in the Information School and Aylin Caliskan, a UW assistant professor in the iSchool. (UW
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