Society + Technology at UW is pleased to cross-promote the next event in the Signals & Society series, Are We Still in Control?, a conversation with Chirag Shah (Information, UW), author of Agent Nation: How Autonomous AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Society—and What We Can Do About It, and Society + Technology at UW’s […]
Registration is now open for Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown’s lecture, What Does Law Mean in Crisis? How Crip Feminist Technoscience Will Save Us, which will take place at 6:30 p.m. May 21 at Town Hall Seattle. The event is organized by the Office of Public Lectures, with Society + Technology at UW and the Tech […]
We Robot is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed conference that brings together leading scholars and practitioners to discuss legal, ethical and policy implications of robots and other emergent digital technologies. Since its inception in 2012, the conference has fostered dynamic conversations regarding robot theory, design, ethics and development. We Robot has been hosted in Yale, Stanford, Ottawa, […]
AI chatbots are everywhere. They answer questions, offer advice, and even provide emotional support. But what happens when they hallucinate or deliver unreliable information? Who’s responsible when these tools cause real harm? Kashmir Hill of The New York Times and Jeff Horwitz of Reuters have been investigating questions like these for years. Hill has broken […]
Society + Technology at UW is pleased to promote the next event in the Signals & Society series, Personal Robots — Is It Finally Time? on Monday, February 9, 2026, at 5:30 PM at Lonely Siren (1501 Pike Pl, Level 2, #200, Seattle, WA 98101). This will be a conversation with Ryan Calo (Law & Information, UW Seattle) and Maya Cakmak (Computer Science, UW Seattle) on what’s […]
