Working with Sovereign Tech Fund
After a brief engagement last year for a strategy process, I’m excited to be working more intensely with Sovereign Tech Fund, a publicly funded program to strengthen public…
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The Ryanair Test for Technology
A classic lens to prob the potential impact of a new technology is to explore that technology from adversarial points of view: What might a criminal do with…
New Report: “Smart Cities: A Key to a Progressive Europe”
I’m happy to share that a report is out today that I had the honor and pleasure to co-author. It’s published jointly by the Foundation for European Progressive…
A list of resources for ethical, responsible, and public interest tech development
For an upcoming day of teaching I started compiling a list of resources relevant for the ethical, responsible development of tech, especially public interest tech. This list is…
“The world doesn’t know where it wants to go”
Image: Compass by Valentin Antonucci (Unsplash) One of the joys of my working at the intersection of emerging tech and its impact is that I get to discuss…
Facebook, Twitter, Google are a new type of media platform, and new rules apply
When Congress questioned representatives of Facebook, Google and Twitter, it became official: We need to finally find an answer to a debate that’s been bubbling for months (if…
Getting our policies ready for AI futures
In late 2016, the White House published a report, “Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Economy” (PDF). It’s a solid work of research and forecasting, and proposes equally solid…