In this talk, Calo examined how law can address the distinctive challenges of technology, including its ability to blur accountability, delay regulatory action, and put rights and societal values at risk.

Presenting Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach and explaining a step-by-step framework for analyzing and regulating technology, helping law guide innovation in ways that protect human values and societal interests.

The conversation, partly moderated by Georgetown Law’s Institute for Technology Law & Policy, will examine a practical, step-by-step approach to assessing emerging technologies in today’s fast-moving, AI-driven world.

Legal and technology scholars Woodrow Hartzog, Rory Van Loo, and Jessica Silbey join a discussion on Ryan Calo’s forthcoming book Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach, which uses vivid examples and real-world insights to explore how society can better govern emerging technologies.

Calo argues that technological change is not inevitable, urging society to reject the notion that law cannot keep up with innovation and instead adopt a values-driven, proactive approach to regulating emerging technologies.

Calo discusses the urgent need for informed tech governance, calling for the revival of institutional expertise and proactive legal frameworks to guide emerging technologies like AI.

Aaron Mak interviews Professor Ryan Calo of the University of Washington about Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach. Calo discusses why society shouldn’t feel obligated to embrace every new innovation,