Science and Technology
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What AI Can’t Do for Democracy
Its potential to enhance civic engagement crucially depends on what policymakers want to learn from the public.
Can AI Break Out of Panglossian Neoliberalism?
What Big Tech has done to our institutional and infrastructural imagination.
The Real Scandal of Campus Protest
It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it.
An Innovation System That Works
Before rushing to build the next DARPA, we need to assess the R&D model we have.
Our Avatars, Ourselves
Generative AI has made it possible to create lifelike models of real people. Should we?
Could a Large Language Model Be Conscious?
Within the next decade, we may well have systems that are serious candidates for consciousness.
The Question Concerning (Workplace) Technology
Will workers and the public get a say in how it’s used?
Can Innovation Serve the Public Good?
Not as it’s traditionally done, but there are more equitable models.
The Fake News about Fake News
In Foolproof, psychologist Sander van der Linden compares misinformation to viral infection—and claims to have a vaccine.
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