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Hanna Wallach

Microsoft Research New York City

641 Avenue of Americas

New York, NY 10011

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

6

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Scholarly Papers (6)

1.

Exploring or Exploiting? Social and Ethical Implications of Autonomous Experimentation in AI

Workshop on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning, 2016
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 04 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2016
Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft ResearchCornell University, AI Now Institute, Mila and Microsoft Research New York City
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Autonomous Experimentation, Artificial Intelligence, Privacy, Ethics

Machine Unlearning Doesn't Do What You Think: Lessons for Generative AI Policy and Research

Stanford Public Law Working Paper
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 13 Jun 2025 Last Revised: 31 Oct 2025
Yale University, Google DeepMind, Independent, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Google DeepMind, Google DeepMind, Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Google DeepMind, Google DeepMind, Google Research, Google Research, University of Washington - Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Cornell Law School, Cornell University - Cornell Tech NYC, Cornell University - Department of Computer Science, Google DeepMind, Google DeepMind, Microsoft ResearchCornell University, Microsoft Research New York City, Microsoft Research, University of Washington, Stanford University, Cornell University, Stanford University - Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, Google Research, Microsoft Research New York City, Independent, West Virginia University - College of Law, Northeastern Univeristy, Stanford Law School, University of Pennsylvania - Statistics Department, University of Toronto and Cornell University - Department of Computer Science
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machine learning, generative AI, copyright, privacy, safety, machine unlearning

Machine Unlearning Doesn't Do What You Think: Lessons for Generative AI Policy, Research, and Practice

Yale Law & Economics Research Paper, Stanford Public Law Working Paper, WVU College of Law Research Paper No. 2025-004
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 06 Feb 2025 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2025
Yale University, Google DeepMind, Independent, Google DeepMind, Google DeepMind, Stanford University, Independent, Google DeepMind, Google Research, University of Washington - Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, Google DeepMind, Google DeepMind, Google Research, Google Research, Stanford University - Department of Computer Science, Stanford Law School, University of Washington, Stanford University, Cornell University, Cornell Law School, Cornell University - Cornell Tech NYC, Cornell University - Department of Computer Science, Microsoft ResearchCornell University, West Virginia University - College of Law, Stanford Law School, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research New York City, Independent, Northeastern Univeristy, University of Pennsylvania - Statistics Department, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Google DeepMind, Microsoft Research New York City, University of Toronto and Cornell University - Department of Computer Science
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machine unlearning, privacy, copyright, safety, Generative AI

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Stretching Human Laws to Apply to Machines: The Dangers of a 'Colorblind' Computer

Zach Harned & Hanna Wallach, Stretching Human Laws to Apply to Machines: The Dangers of a "Colorblind" Computer, 45 Fla. St. L. Rev. 617 (2020).
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 01 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2020
Zach Harned and Hanna Wallach
Stanford Law School and Microsoft Research New York City
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machine learning, Title VII, discrimination, anti-discrimination, artificial intelligence, civil rights, bias, automation, automated decision making

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A New Database for Inferring Public Policy Innovativeness and Diffusion Networks

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 15 Jul 2019
University of Iowa - Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame, College of Arts & Letters, Department of Political Science, Students, Pennsylvania State University, University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Political Science, University of Iowa, New York University (NYU) - Social Media and Political Participation (SMaPP) Lab and Microsoft Research New York City
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policy diffusion, policy innovation, latent networks

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Transparency by Conformity: A Field Experiment Evaluating Openness in Local Governments

Public Administration Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 02 May 2016
University of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania State University and Microsoft Research New York City
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Transparency, Public Records, Local Government, Field Experiment, Peer Effects

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Inference on the Effects of Observed Features in Latent Space Models for Networks

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 21 Jul 2016
Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania State University and Microsoft Research New York City
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