Ryan Calo is an American legal scholar, internationally recognized within the fields of emerging technology, especially privacy, robotics, and artificial intelligence. He is a co-founder of the University of Washington Tech Policy Lab and the Center for an Informed Public which focuses on combating misinformation.

Ryan Calo
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Professor, legal scholar
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Washington School of Law

Education and career

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Calo studied philosophy at Dartmouth College, then moved into a role investigating allegations of police misconduct in New York City. After graduating from law school at University of Michigan, he worked for R. Guy Cole Jr., and on privacy and administrative law in the D.C. office of Covington and Burling, LLC.[1]

At Stanford Law School, he directed privacy and robotics research at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society,[2] and founded the Legal Aspects of Autonomous Driving initiative.[3][4]

He eventually advanced to faculty member at the University of Washington, where he holds multiple positions. He holds the Lane Powell and D. Wayne Gittinger Endowed Professorship at the School of Law; a professor at the Information School; and an adjunct professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering.[5] His work in robotics and cyberlaw was the focus of an article in Science magazine that highlighted the research behind his paper "Robots[6] and the Lessons of Cyberlaw" as well as a report he created for the Brookings Institution.[7][8]

He is a founding co-director of the Tech Policy Lab, a unique, interdisciplinary collaboration at the University of Washington;[9][10] and is co-founder of the Center for an Informed Public, a collaborative whose mission is to resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse.[11]

Calo chaired a University-wide task force on technology and society from fall 2021 to June 2022,[12] and served as chair for the We Robot Conference 2022 when it was hosted by the University of Washington.[13]

Calo was appointed at the World Bank to review privacy appeals[14][15] and has testified before the United States Senate four times.[16][17] [18][19][20]

Publications

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  • "Artificial Intelligence and the Carousel of Soft Law," IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society (2021)
  • "The Automated Administrative State: A Crisis of Legitimacy," Emory Law Journal (2021)

References

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  1. ^ "Ryan Calo". UW School of Law. July 12, 2024.
  2. ^ "Ryan Calo". Stanford Center for Internet and Society. January 16, 2021.
  3. ^ "Legal Aspects of Autonomous Driving". Stanford.edu. January 24, 2012.
  4. ^ Valentino-DeVries, Jennifer. "Q&A: How Do You Define 'Privacy Harm'?". WSJ.
  5. ^ "Ryan Calo". UW News.
  6. ^ Love, Dylan. "A Prominent Lawyer Is Calling For A New Federal Agency To Regulate Robots". Business Insider.
  7. ^ Hiltzik, Michael (October 10, 2014). "A glimpse into the future: Will our robots have legal rights?". Los Angeles Times.
  8. ^ Normile, Dennis (October 10, 2014). "Q&A: Robots and the law". Science. 346 (6206): 195. doi:10.1126/science.346.6206.195. PMID 25301620.
  9. ^ "Tech Policy Lab | University of Washington".
  10. ^ "'Telling Stories': Imagined tales of artificial intelligence presented by the UW Tech Policy Lab". UW News.
  11. ^ "CIP PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS". Center for an Informed Public. November 25, 2019.
  12. ^ "Charge Letter | Technology & Society Task Force". sites.uw.edu.
  13. ^ "We Robot 2022 – University of Washington, Sept 14–16". werobot2022.com.
  14. ^ "Co-Director Named Chair of Data Privacy Panel at the World Bank". Tech Policy Lab.
  15. ^ "Data Privacy". World Bank.
  16. ^ "The Need to Protect Americans' Privacy and the AI Accelerant". July 11, 2024.
  17. ^ "Exploring Augmented Reality". U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation. November 16, 2016.
  18. ^ "Enlisting Big Data in the Fight Against Coronavirus". U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation. April 9, 2020.
  19. ^ https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/3-20-13CaloTestimony.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  20. ^ "Ryan Calo Will Lead Discussion of "The Legal Construction of Black Boxes"". We Robot. September 13, 2021.