Inyoung Cheong
University of Washington
# AI safety / Alignment / Regulation š¤āļø
# PhD Candidate / Faculty Affiliate at UW Law
# Freedom of Algorithmic Expression
# Fulbright / OpenAI Grant Recipient
# former South Korean Gov't Regulator 
# former UN75 šŗļø
š¢ I will be a postdoctral researcher at the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy, starting in October 2024!
I am a PhD Candidate and Affiliate Faculty member at the UW School of Law, teaching Technology Law and Public Policy Seminar (syllabus). Advised by Tadayoshi Kohno, I conduct multi-disciplinary research on AI safety, alignment, and regulatory principles at the Security & Privacy Lab, Tech Policy Lab, and Social Futures Lab. My research has been funded by Fulbright, OpenAI, and UW Alumni and presented at major conferences like ICML, KSEA, and Trust & Safety Research Conference.
I wrote Freedom of Algorithmic Expression (2023), which explored whether social media platformsā content moderation algorithms can be considered a form of speech under the First Amendment. My current focus is on Generative AI and Law for Humanities. My thoughts on Generative AI and Fair Use appeared in the Wall Street Journal.
Before arriving in Seattle, I was a regulator and policymaker in South Korea, as Deputy Director at the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism (2016-2019) and the Korea Communications Commission (2012-2016). In 2020, I assisted the United Nationsā Under-Secretary-General in formulating strategic partnerships with South Korean local governments. More details are outlined in my CV.
| š LinkedIn š Google Scholar š SSRN š§µ Threads š GitHub |
My Latest Highlights šµ
| May. 2024 | Our article, Safeguarding Human Values: Rethinking US Law for Generative AIās 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 | Will be in New Haven once again to present my manuscript on āManipulative Technologies, Privacy, and Free Speech Valuesā 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, Butā¦: Engaging Legal Experts towards Responsible LLM Policies for Legal Advice, was accepted for the ACM FAcct 2024!ā |
| Feb. 2024 | Invited to the Yale Conference on Governing (with) AI as a panelist. Looking forward to visiting campus of Rory Gilmore! |
| Jan. 2024 | Gave 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 | Attended NeurIPS 2023 in NOLAš¹š·, our paper will be presented at MP2 Workshop (Moral Philsophy meets AI). Feel free to shoot me an email if youād like to have a chat! |
| Nov. 2023 | Our project website on Case-based Reasoning on AI Alignment is up!ā |
| Oct. 2023 | Thrilled to have returned to South Korea to present on āLegal Perspectives on AI Alignment, Evaluation & Interpretabilityā at the Korea Association for Telecom Policies Conference. š©āāļøš Wonderful reconnecting with experts across tech policy, industry and academia after years. (poster, paper) |
| Sep. 2023 | Gave a talk on South Koreaās multistakeholder content governance at the Trust & Safety Research Conference at Stanford Observatory. |
| Aug. 2023 | Glad that my team was selected to the OpenAIš¤ās Democratic Inputs to AI grant receipient among over 800 candidate teams! |
| Aug. 2023 | Honored to share my insights on Generative AIās various types of potential harms and legal mitigations with TrustLabās 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, Butā¦: 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 AIās 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 AIās 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 Mediaās Algorithmic Freedom?, Trust & Safety Research Conference. |
| 2022 | Inyoung Cheong, Social Mediaās Algorithmic Freedom?, KSEA NWRC 2022. š Best Poster Award |
On Information Privacy.
| 2021 | Inyoung Cheong, After Facebookās 2016 Data Breach III: The FTCās 5-Billion Dollar Settlement (Korean), The Journal of Law and Economic Regulation. |
| 2020 | Inyoung Cheong, After Facebookās 2016 Data Breach II: The U.S. Federal Courtsā Consumer Class Actions (Korean), The Journal of Law and Economic Regulation. |
| 2019 | Inyoung Cheong, After Facebookās 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, Koreaās New Trends in Culture and Art Legislation (Korean), The Journal of Law and Economic Regulation. |
| 2016 | Inyoung Cheong, Korea Communications Commissionās 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 AIās Potential Harms and Legal Mitigations, TrustLab. |
| 2023 | Overcoming Academic Frustrations, KSEA UKC. š 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
