Inyoung Cheong
Princeton CITP
I AI ethics.
I’m a postdoctoral researcher at the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy, working with Peter Henderson. I’m also an Affiliate Faculty member at the University of Washington School of Law, where I earned my doctorate degree, deeply indebted to the incredible guidance from Tadayoshi Kohno, Ryan Calo, and Amy X. Zhang. My research focuses on the social impacts of AI technologies and the development of socio-technical mitigations. Regarding the latter, I view fundamental legal principles as actively shaping technology’s meaning, not just reactively catching up to it. My approach is highly cross-disciplinary, ranging from legal analysis to large-scale human subject studies. I thrive on collaborations with scholars from diverse backgrounds (law, computer science, sociology, psychology) and career levels, which often lead to serendipitous moments. My work has been supported by the Fulbright Scholarship, OpenAI Democratic Inputs to AI Grant, Schmidt Science Award, and the Consumer Reports Tech Fellowship.
| 📑 CV 🔗 LinkedIn 🎓 Google Scholar 📖 SSRN 🌐 GitHub |
My Latest Highlights 🎵
| June 2025 | Run a tutorial on the Emotional Reliance on AI at CHAI 2025 Workshop. |
| May. 2025 | Present a draft,``Human-centered First Amendment’’ at the Privacy Law Scholars Conference 2025. |
| April 2025 | Present a draft, ``Human-centered First Amendment’’ at the Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference 2025. |
| Feb. 2025 | Give a talk at IASEAI 2025! Steven Kelts writes a great CITP blog post about my talk. |
| Oct. 2024 | Present a draft, ``AI Manipulation and Individual Autonomy’’ at PLSC-Europe in Amsterdam. |
| Oct. 2024 | Give a talk at AI & Access to Justice, held by Stanford Legal Design Lab Medium. |
| Aug. 2024 | Defends my dissertation: “Collaborative Approaches to AI Governance: Exploring Co-Design and Co-Regulation Models”! 👉🏼slide, PDF |
| Jul. 2024 | (A)I Am Not a Lawyer, But…: Engaging Legal Experts towards Responsible LLM Policies for Legal Advice is available on the ACM library. |
| May. 2024 | Our article, Safeguarding Human Values: Rethinking US Law for Generative AI’s Societal Impacts, is publicly available at AI and Ethics! Open-source access was possible thank to the generous support of the UW Tech Policy Lab and the NIST grant. |
| April. 2024 | Presents my manuscript on “Manipulative Technologies, Privacy, and Free Speech Values” at the Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference 2024! (if you want to read it, here it is!) |
| Mar. 2024 | Our paper, (A)I Am Not a Lawyer, But…: Engaging Legal Experts towards Responsible LLM Policies for Legal Advice, is accepted for the ACM FAcct 2024!⭐ |
| Feb. 2024 | Invited to the Yale Conference on Governing (with) AI as a panelist. Looking forward to visiting campus of Rory Gilmore! |
| Jan. 2024 | Give a talk on AI regulation and interdisciplinary research culture in the US to South Korean scholars/attorneys/policymakers at the AI Law and Policy Association Symposium. (presentation) |
| Dec. 2023 | Attend NeurIPS 2023 in NOLA🎹🎷, our paper will be presented at MP2 Workshop (Moral Philsophy meets AI). Feel free to shoot me an email if you’d like to have a chat! |
| Nov. 2023 | Our project website on Case-based Reasoning on AI Alignment is up!⭐ |
| Oct. 2023 | Present on “Legal Perspectives on AI Alignment, Evaluation & Interpretability” at the Korea Association for Telecom Policies Conference. 👩⚖️🌏 Wonderful reconnecting with experts across tech policy, industry and academia after years. (poster, paper) |
| Sep. 2023 | Give a talk on South Korea’s multistakeholder content governance at the Trust & Safety Research Conference at Stanford Observatory. |
| Aug. 2023 | Glad that my team was selected to the OpenAI🤖’s Democratic Inputs to AI grant receipient among over 800 candidate teams! |
| Aug. 2023 | Honored to share my insights on Generative AI’s various types of potential harms and legal mitigations with TrustLab’s engineers and researchers. |
Research and Publications
On Generative AI and Algorithmic Decisions.
| 2024 | Inyoung Cheong, King Xia, K. J. Kevin Feng, Quan Ze Chen, and Amy X. Zhang, (A)I Am Not a Lawyer, But…: Engaging Legal Experts towards Responsible LLM Policies for Legal Advice, ACM FAccT 2024 (forthcoming). |
| 2024 | Inyoung Cheong, Aylin Caliskan, and Tadayoshi Kohno, Safeguarding Human Values: Rethinking US Law for Generative AI’s Societal Impacts, Journal of AI and Ethics (forthcoming). |
| 2024 | Jimin Mun, Liwei Jiang, Jenny Liang, and Inyoung Cheong, Nicole DeCario, Yejin Choi, Tadayoshi Kohno, Maarten Sap, Particip-AI: A Democratic Surveying Framework for Anticipating Future AI Use Cases, Harms and Benefits, preprint. |
| 2023 | K. J. Kevin Feng, Quan Ze Chen, Inyoung Cheong, King Xia, Amy X. Zhang, Case Repositories: Towards Case-Based Reasoning for AI Alignment, NeurIPS 2023 MP2 Workshop. |
| 2023 | Inyoung Cheong, Aylin Caliskan, and Tadayoshi Kohno, Is the U.S. Legal System Ready for AI’s Challenges to Human Values, preprint. |
| 2023 | Inyoung Cheong, Aylin Caliskan, and Tadayoshi Kohno, Envisioning Legal Mitigations for Intentional and Unintentional Harms Associated with Large Language Models (Extended Abstract), ICML 2023 GenLaw Workshop. |
| 2023 | Inyoung Cheong, Freedom of Algorithmic Expression, University of Cincinnati Law Review. |
| 2022 | Inyoung Cheong, Social Media’s Algorithmic Freedom?, Trust & Safety Research Conference. |
| 2022 | Inyoung Cheong, Social Media’s Algorithmic Freedom?, KSEA NWRC 2022. 🏅Best Poster Award |
On Information Privacy.
| 2021 | Inyoung Cheong, After Facebook’s 2016 Data Breach III: The FTC’s 5-Billion Dollar Settlement (Korean), The Journal of Law and Economic Regulation. |
| 2020 | Inyoung Cheong, After Facebook’s 2016 Data Breach II: The U.S. Federal Courts’ Consumer Class Actions (Korean), The Journal of Law and Economic Regulation. |
| 2019 | Inyoung Cheong, After Facebook’s 2016 Data Breach I: The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (Korean), The Journal of Law and Economic Regulation. |
On Administrative Law.
| 2022 | Inyoung Cheong, The US Administrative Law and Civil Penalties (Korean), Administrative Law Journal. |
| 2021 | Inyoung Cheong, Epic Games v. Apple on App Store Payment Systems in South Korea, Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts. |
| 2017 | Inyoung Cheong, Korea’s New Trends in Culture and Art Legislation (Korean), The Journal of Law and Economic Regulation. |
| 2016 | Inyoung Cheong, Korea Communications Commission’s Adjudication on Deceptive News Reports (Korean), The Journal of Law and Economic Regulation. |
| 2014 | Inyoung Cheong, Amendments to the Broadcasting Act in 2013-2014 (Korean), The Journal of Law and Economic Regulation. |
Talks
| 2023 | Legal Perspectives on AI Alignment, Evaluation & Interpretability, The Korea Association for Telecom Policies Conference. |
| 2023 | Generative AI’s Potential Harms and Legal Mitigations, TrustLab. |
| 2023 | Overcoming Academic Frustrations, KSEA UKC. 🏅Best Talk Award. |
| 2023 | Multistakeholder Content Governance in South Korea, Trust & Safety Research Conference. |
| 2022 | Online Content Co-regulation: Case Study of South Korea, TrustCon 2022. |
Books
| 2023 | Moving Forward: Life in the US Grad School (Korean), Brunch. |
| 2022 | Privacy and the Role of the State (Korean), Korea Diversity Press. |
Musings in the News
| 2023 | Generative AI and Fair Use Doctrine, Wall Street Journal: AI Tech Enables Industrial-Scale Intellectual-Property Theft, Say Critics, February 2023. |
Meme-making
