Ryan Calo
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{{Short description|American legal scholar}}
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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.
Education and career
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.law.uw.edu/directory/faculty/calo-ryan/|title=Ryan Calo|website=UW School of Law|date=July 12, 2024 }}
At Stanford Law School, he directed privacy and robotics research at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society,{{cite web |title=Ryan Calo |url=https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/about/people/ryan-calo |website=Stanford Center for Internet and Society |date=January 16, 2021 |language=en}} and founded the Legal Aspects of Autonomous Driving initiative.{{cite web |title=Legal Aspects of Autonomous Driving |url=https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/our-work/projects/legal-aspects-autonomous-driving |website=Stanford.edu |date=January 24, 2012 |language=en}}{{cite web |last1=Valentino-DeVries |first1=Jennifer |title=Q&A: How Do You Define 'Privacy Harm'? |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-17390 |website=WSJ}}
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.{{cite web |title=Ryan Calo |url=https://www.washington.edu/news/people/ryan-calo/ |website=UW News |language=en}} His work in robotics and cyberlaw was the focus of an article in Science magazine that highlighted the research behind his paper "Robots{{cite web |last1=Love |first1=Dylan |title=A Prominent Lawyer Is Calling For A New Federal Agency To Regulate Robots |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/ryan-calo-on-robot-regulation-2014-7 |website=Business Insider}} and the Lessons of Cyberlaw" as well as a report he created for the Brookings Institution.{{cite web |last1=Hiltzik |first1=Michael |title=A glimpse into the future: Will our robots have legal rights? |url=https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-a-glimpse-into-the-future-20141010-column.html |website=Los Angeles Times |date=October 10, 2014}}{{cite journal |last1=Normile |first1=Dennis |title=Q&A: Robots and the law |url=https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.346.6206.195 |journal=Science |pages=195 |language=en |doi=10.1126/science.346.6206.195 |date=October 10, 2014|volume=346 |issue=6206 |pmid=25301620 }}
He is a founding co-director of the Tech Policy Lab, a unique, interdisciplinary collaboration at the University of Washington;{{Cite web|url=https://techpolicylab.uw.edu/about/#:~:text=Ryan+Calo+is+the+Lane,on+robotics+and+the+Internet.|title=About | Tech Policy Lab}}{{cite web |title='Telling Stories': Imagined tales of artificial intelligence presented by the UW Tech Policy Lab |url=https://www.washington.edu/news/2021/03/16/telling-stories-imagined-tales-of-artificial-intelligence-presented-by-the-uw-tech-policy-lab/ |website=UW News |language=en}} 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.{{cite web |title=CIP PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS |url=https://www.cip.uw.edu/people/ |website=Center for an Informed Public |date=November 25, 2019}}
Calo chaired a University-wide task force on technology and society from fall 2021 to June 2022,{{Cite web|url=https://sites.uw.edu/annaswn/tstf_charge/|title=Charge Letter | Technology & Society Task Force|website=sites.uw.edu}} and served as chair for the We Robot Conference 2022 when it was hosted by the University of Washington.{{Cite web|url=https://werobot2022.com/|title=We Robot 2022 – University of Washington, Sept 14–16|website=werobot2022.com}}
Calo was appointed at the World Bank to review privacy appeals{{cite web |title=Co-Director Named Chair of Data Privacy Panel at the World Bank |url=https://techpolicylab.uw.edu/news/co-director-named-chair-of-data-privacy-panel-at-the-world-bank/ |website=Tech Policy Lab}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/accountability/data-privacy|title=Data Privacy|website=World Bank}} and has testified before the United States Senate four times.{{cite web | url=https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2024/7/the-need-to-protect-americans-privacy-and-the-ai-accelerant | title=The Need to Protect Americans' Privacy and the AI Accelerant | date=July 11, 2024 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2016/11/exploring-augmented-reality|title=Exploring Augmented Reality|date=November 16, 2016|website=U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation}}
{{Cite web|url=https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2020/4/enlisting-big-data-in-the-fight-against-coronavirus|title=Enlisting Big Data in the Fight Against Coronavirus|date=April 9, 2020|website=U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation}}{{Cite news |date=20 March 2013 |title=United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary “The Future of Drones In America: Law Enforcement and Privacy Considerations” |url=https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/3-20-13CaloTestimony.pdf}}{{cite web |title=Ryan Calo Will Lead Discussion of "The Legal Construction of Black Boxes" |date=September 13, 2021 |url=https://robots.law.miami.edu/2021/ryan-calo-will-lead-discussion-of-the-legal-construction-of-black-boxes/ |publisher=We Robot}}
Publications
- "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)
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