Ryan Calo

Jul 30, 2024 | lawfaremedia.org | Ryan Calo |Jen Patja

Kevin Frazier is an Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law. He is writing for Lawfare as a Tarbell Fellow. Ryan Calo is a professor at the University of Washington School of Law. He is a founding co-director of the interdisciplinary UW Tech Policy Lab and a co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Jen Patja is the editor and producer of the and .

Jul 4, 2024 | science.org | Akiko Oguchi |Aaron Weimann |Bojana Müller-Durovic |Ryan Calo

Academics researching online misinformation in the US are learning a hard lesson: Academic freedom cannot be taken for granted. They face a concerted effort—including by members of Congress—to undermine or silence their work documenting false and misleading internet content. The claim is that online misinformation researchers are trying to silence conservative voices. The evidence suggests just the opposite.

Jun 26, 2023 | science.thewire.in | Ryan Calo

Representative image. Photo: Mohamed Nohassi/UnsplashThe warning consisted of a single sentence: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”The pithy statement, published in May by the nonprofit Center for AI Safety, was signed by a number of influential people, including a sitting member of Congress, a former state supreme court justice, and an array of technology industry executives.

Jun 26, 2023 | science.thewire.in | Ryan Calo

Public Fixation on ‘Extinction From AI’ Distracts From More Immediate Harms

Jun 22, 2023 | flux.community | Ryan Calo

The warning consisted of a single sentence: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”The pithy statement, published in May by the nonprofit Center for AI Safety, was signed by a number of influential people, including a sitting member of Congress, a former state supreme court justice, and an array of technology industry executives.