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RYAN CALO Ryan Calo is an American professor and internationally recognized scholar on law and 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. According to an entry in the Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, “Calo helped to create a community of legal scholars focused on robotics and AI.”

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 a Federal appellate judge (Judge R. Guy Cole, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit), and on privacy and administrative law in the D.C. office of Covington and Burling, LLC.

At Stanford Law School, he directed privacy and robotics research at the Stanford Center of Internet and Society, and founded the Legal Aspects of Autonomous Driving initiative. He eventually advanced to faculty member at the University of Washington.

Calo holds multiple positions at the University of Washington. He is the Lane Powell and D. Wayne Gittinger Professor 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. He is a founding co-director of the Tech Policy Lab, a unique, interdisciplinary collaboration at the University of Washington that aims to enhance technology policy through research, education, and thought leadership; 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.

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

Calo was appointed at the World Bank to review privacy appeals and has testified before the United States Senate three times.

Personal Life Calo was born in Syracuse, New York, and lived in Florence, Italy.

Publications Ryan Calo, Modeling Through, 71 Duke L.J. 1391-1423 (2021). Ryan Calo & Danielle Keats Citron, The Automated Administrative State: A Crisis of Legitimacy, 70 Emory L. J. 797–845 (2021). Telling Stories: On Culturally Responsive Artificial Intelligence (Ryan Calo, Batya Friedman & Tadayoshi Kohno, Hannah Almeter & Nick Logler eds., Tech Policy Lab 2022). 90 pages. Ryan Calo, Privacy Law’s Indeterminacy, 20 Theoretical Inquiries L. 33-52 (2019). Ryan Calo & Alex Rosenblat, The Taking Economy: Uber, Information, and Power, 117 Colum. L. Rev. 1623-90 (2017).