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A unique collaboration at the University of Washington enhancing technology policy through research, education, and thought leadership.

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Ryan Calo @rcalo.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
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!
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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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Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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...
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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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University of Washington Information School @ischool.uw.edu · 05/01/2026
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...
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PRESS RELEASE: EPIC Welcomes Three Distinguished Members to its Board of Directors
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Ryan Calo @rcalo.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Tonight!
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Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Today at 6:00 PM PDT! Join us! techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event...
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Book Salon on Tech Policy, Culture Shock, and Controversy | Tech Policy Lab
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Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Tomorrow! You can still register here: techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event...
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Book Salon on Tech Policy, Culture Shock, and Controversy | Tech Policy Lab
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Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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...
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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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ICDS Tallinn @icds-tallinn.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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
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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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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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Rachel Hong @rachelhong.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
🪩 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)
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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 · 30/06/2025
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
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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 · 12/06/2025
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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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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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
🔗 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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Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Co-Director @rcalo.bsky.social discusses the importance of not being left in the dark and the ability to make change.
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Ryan Calo @rcalo.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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 · 07/04/2025
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 · 07/04/2025
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 · 04/04/2025
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 · 03/04/2025
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 · 02/04/2025
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 · 01/04/2025
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...
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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 · 31/03/2025
Our Distinguished Lecture with @alondra.bsky.social is this week! Please register today! techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event...
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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 · 27/03/2025
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 · 27/03/2025
TPL Co-Director @rcalo.bsky.social comments in @politico.com on where things current stand regarding TikTok in the US.
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Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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 · 24/03/2025
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 · 20/03/2025
We are only two weeks away! Register today!
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Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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 · 12/03/2025
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
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We Robot Conference 2025
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Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Co-Director @rcalo.bsky.social was recently interviewed by @kuow.org where he explained the chilling of speech, "jawboning," internet trolls, and the evolution of online bullying. m.kuow.org/stories/onli...
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Online bullying isn't new, but it's evolving
UW professor Ryan Calo tells KUOW’s Kim Malcolm about the new powers behind the bully pulpit.
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Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
In and interview with @technologyreview.com, Co-Director @rcalo.bsky.social argues that the Office of Technology Assessment should be resurrected. www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/19/1...
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Congress used to evaluate emerging technologies. Let’s do it again.
A look back at the Office of Technology Assessment, the Congressional think tank that detected lies and tested tech.
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Yoshi Kohno @yoshikohno.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
This is @kaimingcheng.bsky.social at his great talk on "User Comprehension and Comfort with Eye-Tracking and Hand-Tracking Permissions in Augmented Reality" at USEC earlier this week. Nice work!! 🎉 Check out the paper at www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/u....
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Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
As a part of TPL Co-Founder Batya Friedman's @futureoflife.org Future of Life Award, she joined @neildegrassetyson.com, @chucknicecomic.bsky.social, & Gary O'Reilly to discuss her work on Value Sensitive Design and the Ethics of AI on an episode of Start Talk. startalkmedia.com/show/the-eth...
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The Ethics of AI with Batya Friedman & Steve Omohundro - StarTalk Special Edition
Can we ensure technology evolves ethically? Neil Tyson, Chuck Nice & Gary O’Reilly explore the future, ethics, & AI w/ Batya Friedman & Steve Omohundro
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Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Congratulations, Rachel!
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Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Co-Director @rcalo.bsky.social shares his insights on the future of AI, the threats and concerns it presents, and what we might be able to expect from the Administration on @fox13seattle.bsky.social's Good Day Seattle. www.fox13seattle.com/video/1584749
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Future of AI in Trump Administration
Founding Co-Director of the University of Washington Tech Police Lab, Ryan Calo, joins Good Day Seattle to talk about the future of AI.
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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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Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Co-Director @yoshikohno.bsky.social was part of a team awarded by the NSA’s 2024 Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition. “Ethical Frameworks and Computer Security Trolley Problems: Foundations for Conversations" received Honorable Mention. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
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NSA Awards Authors of Assessment of Trustworthiness in GPT Models
The National Security Agency (NSA) Research Directorate recently selected “Decoding Trust: Comprehensive Assessment of Trustworthiness in GPT Models,” as the winner of its 12th Annual Best
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Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Society + Technology, a @uofwa.bsky.social university-wide initiative, housed in the @techpolicylab.bsky.social, hosted its inaugural convening and is working to foster broader collaboration and bring UW experts together. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
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UW initiative ‘Society + Technology’ aims to foster broad collaboration at critical intersection
University of Washington President Ana Marie Cauce, left, speaks at the inaugural convening of Society + Technology at the UW, alongside Monika
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Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
With drones in the news, Co-Director @rcalo.bsky.social discusses potential legal implications of shooting at them in @usatoday.com. www.usatoday.com/story/news/l...
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Is it legal to shoot a drone in Oregon? Mystery drones spark queries
Drones are considered aircrafts by the FAA. Here's what to know about the rules around the contentious issue of drone use.
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Tech Policy Lab @techpolicylab.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Co-Director @rcalo.bsky.social discusses surveillance in brick-and-motar stores with @kuow.org. www.kuow.org/stories/how-...
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Online retailers aren't the only ones digitally spying on you. Brick-and-mortar stores are, too
The holiday shopping season is in full swing and there’s lots of talk about how online shoppers are being tracked. If that creeps you out, you might be tempted to hit the mall instead. But artificial ...
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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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