April 27, 2023

Co-Director Speaks On Elon Musk’s Efforts to Build his Own A.I. Chatbot

The New York Times

The New York Times provides a statement from TPL Co-Director Ryan Calo on Elon Musk’s plan to build his own A.I. chatbot. After the official release of ChatGPT, Musk has spoken out about the harmful effects of these artificial intelligence technologies. Despite his concerns, Musk aims to invest in his own A.I. company called X.AI. Calo […]

April 25, 2023

Co-Director and Faculty Associate Referenced in Article About ‘Smart Cities’

Scienmag

TPL Co-Director Yoshi Kohno and Faculty Associate Franziska Roesner’s paper on ‘Smart Cities’ is referenced in an article with Scienmag. According to this article, many states and governments are currently working with tech companies to incorporate more innovation into cities to mitigate issues such as pollution, traffic congestion, or crime. However, Kohno and Roesner found […]

April 5, 2023

Tech Policy Lab Releases Resilience Grammar: A Value Sensitive Design Method for Resilience Thinking

UW Tech Policy Lab

SEATTLE – Supply chain and agricultural issues have been central to policy discussions and media interest in the past year, and experts are coming together to explore problems and generate solutions. As researchers, designers and policymakers work to understand these systems’ capacity for resiliency, the need for a structured analysis and design approach is increasingly […]

March 21, 2023

Bloomberg Law Spotlights Tech Policy Lab for Innovation and Experiential Learning

Bloomberg Law

Bloomberg Law is spotlighting the excellence of the Tech Policy Lab as part of its 2022 Law School Innovation Program. Named alongside schools like Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law and UC San Francisco’s College of the Law, the UW collaboration was noted for its “innovative program that is advancing legal education.” The Tech Policy Lab […]

March 13, 2023

New faculty associate Aylin Caliskan

The Tech Policy Lab has welcomed a new faculty associate, Aylin Caliskan.  Aylin is an Assistant Professor in the Information School and, by courtesy, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. Aylin also is a Nonresident Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution, housed in the Center […]

March 3, 2023

TPL Faculty Associate Emily Bender profiled in New York Magazine

New York Magazine

Tech Policy Lab Faculty Associate and UW Linguistics professor Emily Bender was profiled in New York Magazine. The profile focuses on Bender’s work with large language models (LLMs) and how she has worked to emphasize the importance of humanity and differentiating humans from language models. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html

February 20, 2023

Co-Director Comments on the Impact of AI and Policing

The Guardian

In an article that discusses AI and policing, TPL Co-Director TPL Co-Director Batya Friedman shares her thoughts. When incorporating AI into our society to make decisions, we must ensure that our technologies are not just fair and just. Professor Friedman suggests that justice is the act of humans “recognizing and restoring” each other. Before implementing […]

February 6, 2023

Co-Director & Ph.D. Student’s Paper Featured in 3 Articles About Defining Privacy and the Dilemmas of Privacy Legislation

American Enterprise Institute - AEI, Technology & Marketing Law Blog, Legal Theory Blog

TPL Co-Director Ryan Calo and Ph.D. student María P. Angel’s paper, Distinguishing Privacy Law: A Critique of Privacy as Social Taxonomy, is mentioned in three articles. As iterated by all articles, Calo and Angel illustrate the difficulty of defining what exactly ‘privacy’ constitutes especially in creating laws and regulation. Since ‘privacy’ can be interpreted in […]

January 25, 2023

Co-Director Joins World Bank Data Privacy Day to Discuss Privacy and Vulnerability

World Bank Live

In a lunchtime talk at the World Bank Data Privacy Day 2023, TPL Co-Director Ryan Calo discussed the topic of vulnerability and privacy. Calo stressed the importance of how users can become vulnerable online, especially when companies and organizations have to handle user information. Each person can be in a state of vulnerability online, and […]

January 24, 2023

Co-Director Mentioned in an Article About AI and Tort Law

Chief Executive

In a recent article with Chief Executive, TPL Co-Director Ryan Calo speaks on a possible but terrifying possibility of artificial intelligence. AI is designed to create better, faster, and more efficient solutions for humans. But, who is responsible for the damages that AI may create? Calo states that even in an effort to maximize efficiency, […]