October 7, 2024

New program hosted by Tech Policy Lab launches website

Society + Technology at UW will strengthen ties between campuses

Society + Technology at UW, the new cross-campus program hosted by the Tech Policy Lab, has launched the program website at www.societyandtechnology.uw.edu. The program is the outcome of the Technology & Society Task Force (TSTF), charged by the University of Washington President and Provost, and chaired by Tech Policy Lab Co-Director Ryan Calo. Last winter, […]

October 6, 2024

TPL alumnus Katell passes away in London

Tech Policy Lab alumnus Mike Katell passed away recently in London. Katell was a valuable member of the Lab, contributing to projects including “Designing Tech Policy” and publishing papers on privacy and value sensitive design. Co-Director Ryan Calo partnered with Katell during his time at the Lab. “I worked with Mike Katell on several projects […]

September 9, 2024

Co-Director wins award for work to reduce bias

UW Information School

Co-Director Aylin Caliskan recently received a $603,342 award that will help support her work measuring biases in generative artificial intelligence systems and their impact. She received the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award for her project titled, “The Impact of Associations and Biases in Generative AI on Society.” Caliskan became co-director of the […]

July 31, 2024

TPL paper wins student award at PETS

A Tech Policy Lab paper was awarded in the Runner Up category at the 2024 Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium. “Over Fences and Into Yards: Privacy Threats and Concerns of Commercial Satellites,” was written by Rachel McAmis, Mia Bennett and Tadayoshi Kohno, along with Mattea Sim of University of Indiana Bloomington. The paper captures […]

June 23, 2024

TPL alumna’s star is on the rise

UW School of Law

Maria P. Angel, Tech Policy Lab alumna and 2024 Ph.D. graduate from the School of Law, is already making waves in the field even as her career is just getting started. A recent profile by the School of Law highlights Angel’s path from working in research and advocacy in Colombia to postdoctoral studies with Yale […]

June 13, 2024

“Is tricking a robot hacking?“

Transcript and audio recording of our panel conversation about AI, computer hacking, and security research

  On May 8, 2024, the UW Tech Policy Lab, Society + Technology at UW, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation jointly convened The Model Hacker? The Intersection of AI and Security Research. This event brought into conversation Cindy Cohn, Ryan Calo, Tadayoshi Kohno, Franziska Roesner, and Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, experts in computer science, law, and security […]

May 3, 2024

University of Washington launches Society + Technology with focus on AI and emerging technologies

Society + Technology at the University of Washington is a new program that uplifts an emergent network of faculty, students, researchers, staff, and programs across all of the UW’s three campuses (Bothell, Seattle, and Tacoma) and the School of Medicine around the social, societal, and justice aspects of technology. The program’s focus this spring is […]

February 13, 2024

Welcome Aylin Caliskan as new TPL co-director

The co-directors of UW’s Tech Policy Lab are familiar with breaking ground and testing new ideas together. Since 2013, they have partnered in research and education to guide conversations around topics with no clear path to an answer or oftentimes even a precedent. This prepared them well for the task of replacing one of their […]

February 1, 2024

TPL welcomes Monika Sengul-Jones

The UW Tech Policy Lab is pleased to welcome Monika Sengul-Jones, PhD (she/her, they/them), as the Program Manager for a new initiative to foster cross-campus collaboration at the intersection of society and technology. Innovations in emerging technologies, from generative AI to quantum computing, continue to garner public attention about their impacts on society. The new […]

January 22, 2024

TPL scholar awarded Siegel fellowship

The University of Washington Tech Policy Lab is pleased to announce postdoctoral scholar Nick Logler as its Siegel Research Fellow. The fellowship of $125,000 was awarded by Siegel Family Endowment. Logler earned his PhD from the UW Information School in 2023, with research focused on how people are affected by experiences of designing, building, and […]