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Frankenstein’s paperclips
"Deep learning, with its ability to spot patterns and find clusters of similar examples, has obvious potential to fight crime—and allow authoritarian gover…
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‘Special relationship’ is put into jeopardy
"“Europe in general has not been a huge focus for the Obama administration,” said Henry Farrell, an expert on the European Union and professor at George Wa…
The U.K. has voted for Brexit. Here’s what happens next.
After a bitter referendum campaign, the United Kingdom has voted for Brexit, making the decision to leave the European Union. This is the first time that the E.…
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Net neutrality advocates target zero-rated offerings from Verizon, T-Mobile, others
"Barbara van Schewick, a Stanford law professor and net neutrality expert, filed a report earlier this year with the FCC claiming Binge On "harms comp…
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Why the US government should take Tesla up on its offer to share Autopilot data
"While the proposition was informal, the Department of Transportation, said Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor of law at the University of South C…
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Moral Dilemma of Self-Driving Cars: Which Lives to Save in a Crash
""Focusing the public's attention on these hypotheticals also distracts from far more pressing ethical issues," Bryant Walker Smith, an assis…
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Your Self-Driving Car Will Be Programmed to Kill You—Deal With It
"Patrick Lin, the director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University, says we humans are a fickle lot, and that we…
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Automatisierungsdividende: Bundestag diskutiert über "Robotersteuer" und Maschinenethik
""Große blinde Flecken bei der Regulierung" autonomer System machte Rojas aus. Seine Utopie sei es, "die Anzahl der Fahrzeuge um 90 Prozent…
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CDA 230 Problems: Do Algorithms Threaten to Undermine Speech Protections?
A few weeks ago, after I published a blog post raising the question of what might happen to CDA 230 when internet intermediaries like Facebook invoke First Amen…
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Binge On doesn't live up to T-Mobile's claims, researchers say
"But earlier this year a Stanford professor and net neutrality expert published a lengthy document claiming that Binge On "harms competition, innovati…
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Rape threats on a stranger’s Facebook photo could land a man in prison. Why that’s a big deal.
"While the legal treatment of online harassment differs from country to country, such incidents point to a growing and broader awareness among the public a…
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How to find bad drivers on the road near you
"“We’re losing some of the granularity between car and driver that we’ve had in other contexts,” said Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor of law and computer sci…