Elon Musk Has Fired Twitter’s ‘Ethical AI’ Team

Elon Musk Has Fired Twitter’s ‘Ethical AI’ Team

As more and more problems with AI have surfaced, including biases around race, gender, and age, many tech companies have installed “ethical AI” teams ostensibly dedicated to identifying and mitigating such issues.Twitter’s META unit was more progressive than most in...
To Fix Tech, Democracy Needs to Grow Up

To Fix Tech, Democracy Needs to Grow Up

There isn’t much we can agree on these days. But two sweeping statements that might garner broad support are “We need to fix technology” and “We need to fix democracy.”There is growing recognition that rapid technology development is producing society-scale risks:...