We've gotten the hang of correcting and preventing human actors' mistakes, but how ought we to prepare for new kinds of mistakes wrought by AI, ask Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders?

Urs Gasser is Professor of Public Policy, Governance, and Innovative Technology at the Technical University of Munich, where he serves as Dean of the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology and ...

From Ssuyu Teng and John Fairbank, China's Response to the West (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1954), reprinted in Mark A. Kishlansky, ed., Sources of World History, Volume II, (New York: ...

The following checklist is intended to provide general guidance for organizations interested in assessing their information handling practices. Specifically, this document will help you assess your ...

LORD COLERIDGE, C J. The two prisoners, Thomas Dudley and Edwin Stephens, were indicted for the murder of Richard Parker on the high seas on the 25th of July in the present year. They were tried ...

Ben Brooks and Michelle Fang argue that legislators ought to be more concerned about other nations openly sharing AI models that could undercut the US's dominance in the field.

· 1960 – 1965 – Paul Baran working at RAND developed idea of packet switching and computerized “distributed networks” using “a rapid store and forward system” nicknamed “hot potato routing” and wrote ...

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society was founded in 1997 with a generous gift from Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman. The Berkman family has continued its steadfast support with periodic ...

What are Patents and Why Do We Have Them? What is a patent anyway? A patent is a government issued grant which confers on the inventor the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale ...

This wiki page has been my main home page since June 2013. My latest book is Knowledge Unbound (MIT Press, 2016). It's available in paperback, hardback, and many open-access editions (same text, ...

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An artisan in a rural village using her community center's computer to sell handicrafts on the World Wide Web. Healthcare workers accessing online databases to research recent health advisories.