Newsletter Archive_Fall 2025

University of Washington

FALL 2025

A look at the intersection of technology, law and humanity

Co-Director Ryan Calo discusses the complex relationships in a conversation with "Tech Policy Press" about his new book. Listen or read the transcript here.

Image showing three people in a row at the Bill and Melinda Gates Center. Yoshi Kohno, left, Stephen Checkoway and Karl Koscher.

Lab research stands the

Test of Time

Co-Director Yoshi Kohno is part of team awarded by USENIX for work helping secure automobiles from cybersecurity attacks. Read more here.

Check out our new home page!

Our website has a fresh look, designed to guide you to our top stories as soon as you log on. See it here.

Screenshot of the Tech Policy Lab website home page. Shows menu header and photo carousel featuring Distinguished Lecture.

New Cutting-Edge Research

"Bias Amplification in Stable Diffusion’s Representation of Stigma Through Skin Tones and Their Homogeneity"; Co-Director Aylin Caliskan.
"Biased AI Outputs Can Impact Humans’ Implicit Bias: A Case Study of the Impact of Gender-Biased Text-to-Image Generators"; Co-Directors Tadayoshi Kohno and Aylin Caliskan.
"Biases Propagate in Encoder-based Vision-Language Models: A Systematic Analysis From Intrinsic Measures to Zero-shot Retrieval Outcomes"; Co-Director Aylin Caliskan.
"No Thoughts Just AI: Biased LLM Hiring Recommendations Alter Human Decision Making and Limit Human Autonomy"; Co-Director Aylin Caliskan.
"Persona-Assigned Large Language Models Exhibit Human-Like Motivated Reasoning"; Co-Director Aylin Caliskan.
"Personalized Safety in LLMs: A Benchmark and A Planning-Based Agent Approach"; Co-Director Aylin Caliskan.
"What Are Chatbots’ Stereotypes About? A Data-Driven Analysis of Large Language Models’ Content Associations with Social Categories"; Co-Director Aylin Caliskan.

TPL in the Media

Co-Director

Ryan Calo,

"Should you delete your ChatGPT history? Why you might not have a choice."

Co-Director

Ryan Calo,

"Tech policy could be smarter and less partisan if Congress hadn’t shut down this innovative program."

Faculty Associate

Emily Bender,
"How AI is Changing Higher Education."

Co-Director

Ryan Calo,

"Can you shoot down a drone hovering over your property in Michigan? What the law says."

Our People

Andrew Raitt,

MJ '22,

Hazelton Fellow,
joins TELUS as

Data and Trust Manager.

Josephine Laing,

JD '25,

Magnuson Fellow,

joins U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

James Ostrowski,

JD '25,

is a new AI Fellow for U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt.

Are you a TPL alumni, associate or student who has recently made a career move or achieved a milestone? Share it with us! We love to celebrate the success of the Tech Policy Lab network. Email techpolicy@uw.edu with your name, photo and details and we will highlight you in a future newsletter.