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Getting the First Amendment Wrong
Think of the last time you changed your profile picture on Facebook or Instagram. When you uploaded that photo, did you assume you were agreeing to let anyone d…
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Are We Already Living in a Tech Dystopia?
"People should no more believe in dystopia than utopia. The fact is that technology has changed the world for so many for so long for the better—from reduc…
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DoD Needs New Policies, Ethics For Brain-Computer Links (Jacked-In Troops?)
"“It’s good to put attention on this emerging subject, since what’s been science fiction is now becoming reality,” Patrick Lin, a philosophy professor at C…
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Amazon and FedEx Push to Put Delivery Robots on Your Sidewalk
"Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor who studies emerging tech, says the bills don’t mean you’ll wake up tomorrow to an Amazo…
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A Dogfight Renews Concerns About AI's Lethal Potential
"“One wonders if the vision of a rapid, overwhelming, swarm-like robotics technology is really consistent with a human being in the loop,” says Ryan Calo,…
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Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run?
"“Ten years is a very, very, very, very long time in the software world,” says Victoria Stodden, who studies computational reproducibility at the Universit…
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Jack Dorsey, Twitter and Square Cofounder, Donates $10 Million to BU Center for Antiracist Research
"Cyber civil rights expert Danielle Citron, a School of Law professor of law, says Twitter should be credited with “trying to address hate speech in a cohe…
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Q&A with Daphne Keller of the Program on Platform Regulation
Daphne Keller leads the newly launched Program on Platform Regulation a program designed to offer lawmakers, academics, and civil society groups ground-breaking…
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Silicon Valley has been quietly selling ineffective tech "solutions" to police departments
""There is a myth that additional technology will make policing more efficient and effective," says Malkia Devich-Cyril, the founding director an…
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The Quiet Growth of Race-Detection Software Sparks Concerns Over Bias
"Using AI to identify ethnicity “seems more likely to harm than help,” says Arvind Narayanan, a computer science professor at Princeton University who has…
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The Future of Free Speech Online May Depend on This Database
"“I feel like the evolution of GIFCT is a real illustration of just how slippery terms like platform responsibility or platform accountability turn out to…
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Michigan plans dedicated road lanes for autonomous vehicles
"The lanes would be helpful for the current state of autonomous vehicles, which still cannot operate safely with human-driven vehicles under all traffic an…