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March 11, 2024

Aylin Caliskan was awarded an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant of $603,342 for her project titled “The Impact of Associations and Biases in Generative AI on Society.” 

Aylin Caliskan and co-authors Tessa Elizabeth Sadie Charlesworth, Kshitish Ghate, and Mahzarin Banaji published a pre-print of their paper “Extracting Intersectional Stereotypes from Static and Contextualized Embeddings” in PNAS Nexus. 

Aylin Caliskan and Kristian Lum published a policy commentary for Brookings on how “Effective AI regulation requires understanding of general-purpose AI.” 

Lorcan Dempsey contributed the invited, inaugural article, “Predicting the Unpredictable: asking real questions about generative AI”, to American Libraries, Field Guides, a new column for policy experts exploring key library issues. 

 Aylin Caliskan gave a Keynote titled “Artificial Intelligence, Bias, and Ethics” at the UCSF 2024 School of Medicine Leadership Retreat. 

  • Aylin was also invited to give the Faculty Lunch Lightning Talk at Paul Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering titled “Bias In, Bias Out: Propagation of Representational Social Group Bias to Zero-Shot Tasks in Vision-Language Models.” 

Chris Coward was a panelist for “The Power of Play: game-based interventions for news literacy” at the European Digital and Media Literacy Conference hosted by the European Union. 

Sabrina Carnesi, LIS PhD student, moderated a panel titled “Looking Back at 50 Years of ChLA, and Charting the Path Forward for Diversity Studies,” at the Children’s Literature Association (ChLA) Annual Conference.

  • Sabrina also was a panelist at the Children’s Literature Association Conference for a talk titled “Song of the Land: Critical Perspectives on the Works of Mildred D. Taylor.” 

Amy Ko was featured in a GeekWire article titled "University of Washington Launches Research Center to Address Challenges in Computer Science Education," discussing the UW LCI (Learning, Computing, and Imagination) Center, which she will co-direct. 

Lorcan Dempsey was interviewed for an essay in Aeon titled “Indexing the Information Age.”