Aylin Kamelia Caliskan
@aylincaliskan.bsky.social
https://faculty.washington.edu/aylin
Computer scientist • Prof @UWischool & @UWcse
Co-Director @TechPolicyLab • Nonresident Senior Fellow @BrookingsInst
AI & Societal Impacts: Ethics in NLP • Multimodal ML • CV • Human-AI Collaboration
Computer scientist • Prof @UWischool & @UWcse
Co-Director @TechPolicyLab • Nonresident Senior Fellow @BrookingsInst
AI & Societal Impacts: Ethics in NLP • Multimodal ML • CV • Human-AI Collaboration
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Thanks to @uwnews.uw.edu for covering my + @aylincaliskan.bsky.social's recent work published at AIES 2025! www.washington.edu/news/2025/11...
People mirror AI systems’ hiring biases, study finds
In a new UW study, 528 participants worked with simulated AI systems to select job candidates. The researchers simulated different levels of racial biases for resumes from white, Black, Hispanic and.....
www.washington.edu
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Thanks to @uwnews.uw.edu for covering my + @aylincaliskan.bsky.social's recent work published at AIES 2025! www.washington.edu/news/2025/11...
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Work done with amazing collaborators 🙏
@andyliu.bsky.social @devanshrjain.bsky.social @taylor-sorensen.bsky.social @atoosakz.bsky.social @aylincaliskan.bsky.social @monadiab77.bsky.social @maartensap.bsky.social
@andyliu.bsky.social @devanshrjain.bsky.social @taylor-sorensen.bsky.social @atoosakz.bsky.social @aylincaliskan.bsky.social @monadiab77.bsky.social @maartensap.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Work done with amazing collaborators 🙏
@andyliu.bsky.social @devanshrjain.bsky.social @taylor-sorensen.bsky.social @atoosakz.bsky.social @aylincaliskan.bsky.social @monadiab77.bsky.social @maartensap.bsky.social
@andyliu.bsky.social @devanshrjain.bsky.social @taylor-sorensen.bsky.social @atoosakz.bsky.social @aylincaliskan.bsky.social @monadiab77.bsky.social @maartensap.bsky.social
Honored to be promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Washington! Grateful to my brilliant mentees, students, collaborators, mentors & @techpolicylab.bsky.social for advancing research in AI & Ethics together—and for the invaluable academic freedom to keep shaping trustworthy AI.
September 16, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Honored to be promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Washington! Grateful to my brilliant mentees, students, collaborators, mentors & @techpolicylab.bsky.social for advancing research in AI & Ethics together—and for the invaluable academic freedom to keep shaping trustworthy AI.
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I am so damn excited to share my new book, Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach. Full of stories and priced at $40, this book explains why law finds technology so difficult to regulate, and what to do about it. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
June 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I am so damn excited to share my new book, Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach. Full of stories and priced at $40, this book explains why law finds technology so difficult to regulate, and what to do about it. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Michael News! I will be joining the Tech Policy Lab at the University of Washington @ischool.uw.edu and UW NLP working with @aylincaliskan.bsky.social as a postdoc in the fall, to work on situated evaluation, multimodal/lingual/cultural genAI, and new directions in safety, fairness, and alignment!
May 16, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Michael News! I will be joining the Tech Policy Lab at the University of Washington @ischool.uw.edu and UW NLP working with @aylincaliskan.bsky.social as a postdoc in the fall, to work on situated evaluation, multimodal/lingual/cultural genAI, and new directions in safety, fairness, and alignment!
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Excited to announce our #NAACL2025 Oral paper! 🎉✨
We carried out the largest systematic study so far to map the links between upstream choices, intrinsic bias, and downstream zero-shot performance across 131 CLIP Vision-language encoders, 26 datasets, and 55 architectures!
We carried out the largest systematic study so far to map the links between upstream choices, intrinsic bias, and downstream zero-shot performance across 131 CLIP Vision-language encoders, 26 datasets, and 55 architectures!
April 29, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Excited to announce our #NAACL2025 Oral paper! 🎉✨
We carried out the largest systematic study so far to map the links between upstream choices, intrinsic bias, and downstream zero-shot performance across 131 CLIP Vision-language encoders, 26 datasets, and 55 architectures!
We carried out the largest systematic study so far to map the links between upstream choices, intrinsic bias, and downstream zero-shot performance across 131 CLIP Vision-language encoders, 26 datasets, and 55 architectures!
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🔗 Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-l...
Work done with amazing collaborators
@isaacslaughter.bsky.social,
@kyrawilson.bsky.social, @aylincaliskan.bsky.social, and @monadiab77.bsky.social!
Catch our Oral presentation at Ballroom B, Thursday, May 1st, 14:00-15:30 pm!📷✨
Work done with amazing collaborators
@isaacslaughter.bsky.social,
@kyrawilson.bsky.social, @aylincaliskan.bsky.social, and @monadiab77.bsky.social!
Catch our Oral presentation at Ballroom B, Thursday, May 1st, 14:00-15:30 pm!📷✨
Intrinsic Bias is Predicted by Pretraining Data and Correlates with Downstream Performance in Vision-Language Encoders
Kshitish Ghate, Isaac Slaughter, Kyra Wilson, Mona T. Diab, Aylin Caliskan. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ...
aclanthology.org
April 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
🔗 Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-l...
Work done with amazing collaborators
@isaacslaughter.bsky.social,
@kyrawilson.bsky.social, @aylincaliskan.bsky.social, and @monadiab77.bsky.social!
Catch our Oral presentation at Ballroom B, Thursday, May 1st, 14:00-15:30 pm!📷✨
Work done with amazing collaborators
@isaacslaughter.bsky.social,
@kyrawilson.bsky.social, @aylincaliskan.bsky.social, and @monadiab77.bsky.social!
Catch our Oral presentation at Ballroom B, Thursday, May 1st, 14:00-15:30 pm!📷✨
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🗞️ Hot off the press! 🗞️
@aylincaliskan.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post about how to make resume screening with AI more equitable based findings from our work presented at AIES in 2024. Major takeaways ⬇️ (1/6)
www.brookings.edu/articles/gen...
@aylincaliskan.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post about how to make resume screening with AI more equitable based findings from our work presented at AIES in 2024. Major takeaways ⬇️ (1/6)
www.brookings.edu/articles/gen...
Gender, race, and intersectional bias in AI resume screening via language model retrieval
Kyra Wilson and Aylin Caliskan examine gender, race, and intersectional bias in AI resume screening and suggest protective policies.
www.brookings.edu
April 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
🗞️ Hot off the press! 🗞️
@aylincaliskan.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post about how to make resume screening with AI more equitable based findings from our work presented at AIES in 2024. Major takeaways ⬇️ (1/6)
www.brookings.edu/articles/gen...
@aylincaliskan.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post about how to make resume screening with AI more equitable based findings from our work presented at AIES in 2024. Major takeaways ⬇️ (1/6)
www.brookings.edu/articles/gen...
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Congrats to soon-to-be-Dr Rachel McAmis on passing the UW @uwcse.bsky.social General Exam and advancing to candidacy. Her research, with the UW Security & Privacy Research Lab and the @techpolicylab.bsky.social, is focused on satellites and computer security
February 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Congrats to soon-to-be-Dr Rachel McAmis on passing the UW @uwcse.bsky.social General Exam and advancing to candidacy. Her research, with the UW Security & Privacy Research Lab and the @techpolicylab.bsky.social, is focused on satellites and computer security
UW’s @techpolicylab.bsky.social and I invite applications for a 2-year Postdoctoral Researcher position in "AI Alignment with Ethical Principles" focusing on language technologies, societal impact, and tech policy.
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Priority review deadline: 3/28/2025
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Priority review deadline: 3/28/2025
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February 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
UW’s @techpolicylab.bsky.social and I invite applications for a 2-year Postdoctoral Researcher position in "AI Alignment with Ethical Principles" focusing on language technologies, societal impact, and tech policy.
Kindly share!
apply.interfolio.com/162834
Priority review deadline: 3/28/2025
Kindly share!
apply.interfolio.com/162834
Priority review deadline: 3/28/2025
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📢 The survey 👇 on "intelligence" & ChatGPT is open until Jan 14. All fields are welcome, but a special invitation goes to folks in Philosophy, Psychology, HCI, Cognitive Science, CSS, and AI ethics. Please repost.
What do YOU mean by "intelligence", and does ChatGPT fit your definition?
We collected the major criteria used in CogSci and other fields, and designed a survey to find out!
Access link: www.survey-xact.dk/collect
Code: 4S7V-SN4M-S536
Time: 5-10 mins
We collected the major criteria used in CogSci and other fields, and designed a survey to find out!
Access link: www.survey-xact.dk/collect
Code: 4S7V-SN4M-S536
Time: 5-10 mins
Perspectives on Intelligence: Community Survey
Research survey exploring how NLP/ML/CogSci researchers define and use the concept of intelligence.
bertramhojer.github.io
January 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
📢 The survey 👇 on "intelligence" & ChatGPT is open until Jan 14. All fields are welcome, but a special invitation goes to folks in Philosophy, Psychology, HCI, Cognitive Science, CSS, and AI ethics. Please repost.
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Nice article explaining unwanted bias in hiring stemming from the use of artificial intelligence with extensive quotations from @kyrawilson.bsky.social and Moninder Singh. www.ibm.com/think/news/a...
How AI can help the recruitment process—without hurting it | IBM
AI agents for recruiters are time-savers—but experts caution that developers need to make sure they're unbiased. Find out what data scientists and engineers are doing to mitigate bias in AI-driven rec...
www.ibm.com
December 11, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Nice article explaining unwanted bias in hiring stemming from the use of artificial intelligence with extensive quotations from @kyrawilson.bsky.social and Moninder Singh. www.ibm.com/think/news/a...
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The Tech Policy Lab is delighted to announce that we will be hosting Alondra Nelson (@alondra.bsky.social) for our Distinguished Lecture the evening of Thursday, April 3rd on the UW (@uofwa.bsky.social) campus.
For more information, please visit techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event....
For more information, please visit techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event....
December 12, 2024 at 10:56 PM
The Tech Policy Lab is delighted to announce that we will be hosting Alondra Nelson (@alondra.bsky.social) for our Distinguished Lecture the evening of Thursday, April 3rd on the UW (@uofwa.bsky.social) campus.
For more information, please visit techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event....
For more information, please visit techpolicylab.uw.edu/events/event....
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Google quietly updated their ngrams viewer again this year. The books used appear to be extremely different yet again--the rate of the words "she said" are about 60% what they were in the 20th century compared to the 2019 release, and just 20% compared to 2009. But there's a catch:
December 11, 2024 at 2:20 AM
Google quietly updated their ngrams viewer again this year. The books used appear to be extremely different yet again--the rate of the words "she said" are about 60% what they were in the 20th century compared to the 2019 release, and just 20% compared to 2009. But there's a catch:
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Congratulations to my friend and Tech Policy Lab co-founder Batya Friedman, recipient of the Future of Life Award for her pioneering work in Value Sensitive Design. ischool.uw.edu/news/2024/12...
Batya Friedman receives Future of Life Award
Trained as a computer scientist in the late 1970s, Batya Friedman has been asking questions about how to live well in the world and how to treat people wit...
ischool.uw.edu
December 10, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Congratulations to my friend and Tech Policy Lab co-founder Batya Friedman, recipient of the Future of Life Award for her pioneering work in Value Sensitive Design. ischool.uw.edu/news/2024/12...
I'm honored to receive the NSF CAREER Award to research the societal impact of associations and biases in generative AI and align AI with ethical principles to reduce harm and benefit all. I'm deeply grateful to my collaborators, mentees, and mentors who made this work possible 🙏
Assistant Professor and Tech Policy Lab Co-Director Aylin Caliskan was recently awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for her project titled, “The Impact of Associations and Biases in Generative AI on Society.” ischool.uw.edu/news/2024/09...
iSchool's Caliskan wins award to battle bias in artificial intelligence
Imagine losing out on your dream job due to bias in AI tools used in the resume screening process or having your health care compromised for the same reaso...
ischool.uw.edu
November 27, 2024 at 12:34 AM
I'm honored to receive the NSF CAREER Award to research the societal impact of associations and biases in generative AI and align AI with ethical principles to reduce harm and benefit all. I'm deeply grateful to my collaborators, mentees, and mentors who made this work possible 🙏
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#geekwire - #AI overwhelmingly prefers white and male job candidates in new test of resume-screening bias
#Blackmen fared the worst with the models preferring other candidates nearly 100% of the time.
www.geekwire.com/2024/ai-over...
#Blackmen fared the worst with the models preferring other candidates nearly 100% of the time.
www.geekwire.com/2024/ai-over...
AI overwhelmingly prefers white and male job candidates in new test of resume-screening bias
Kyra Wilson, left, University of Washington doctoral student in the Information School and Aylin Caliskan, a UW assistant professor in the iSchool. (UW
www.geekwire.com
November 3, 2024 at 7:29 AM
#geekwire - #AI overwhelmingly prefers white and male job candidates in new test of resume-screening bias
#Blackmen fared the worst with the models preferring other candidates nearly 100% of the time.
www.geekwire.com/2024/ai-over...
#Blackmen fared the worst with the models preferring other candidates nearly 100% of the time.
www.geekwire.com/2024/ai-over...