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Uber self-driving car operator charged in pedestrian death
Bryant Walker Smith, a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law who studies autonomous vehicles, expressed concern about the signal it sends…
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Human Driver of ‘Driverless’ Car Charged in 2018 Ped Death
“The fact that this driver has been charged with a crime does not vindicate Uber in any way,” said Bryant Walker Smith, a lawyer, engineer, and internationally…
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Where Are the Self-Driving Cars?
“Comparing disengagement rates between companies is worse than meaningless: It creates perverse incentives….If I wanted to look even better, I’d do a ton of eas…
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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…