If Russia disconnects—or is booted—from the Internet's governing bodies, the Internet may never be the same.
MIT Technology Review From ACM Opinion | March 17, 2022
Make online spaces more similar to offline ones to limit the reach of bad actors and keep people safe
MIT Technology Review From ACM Opinion | December 30, 2021
Focusing on hiring pipelines or career pathways alone won't solve tech's diversity and inclusion problems.
MIT Technology Review From ACM Opinion | October 27, 2021
A novel approach to rein in the largest technology companies, encourage competition and innovation, and help democracy
MIT Technology Review From ACM Opinion | August 4, 2021
Donald Trump and Joe Biden both want to throw out Section 230. Here's why America should fix it instead. By Paul M. Barrett, deputy director of the NYU Stern Center...MIT Technology Review From ACM Opinion | September 24, 2020
Researchers are too focused on whether AI systems can ace tests of dubious value. They should be testing whether systems grasp how the world works.
MIT Technology Review From ACM Opinion | August 5, 2020
Pooling tests with the help of machine learning can allow us to safely reopen without a vaccine.
MIT Technology Review From ACM Opinion | July 27, 2020
These canaries in the coal mines of AI would be signs that superintelligent robot overlords are approaching.
Technology Review From ACM Opinion | February 25, 2020
Researchers are sounding the alarm about the surprisingly large carbon footprint of the computations required for deep learning.
Technology Review From ACM Opinion | August 2, 2019
An international team of 22 big name AI researchers have laid out a road map suggesting how machine learning can help save the planet and humanity from imminent...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | June 20, 2019
As you read this, over a million people are in flight. Close to a third of the commercial airplanes in the sky at any given moment are Boeing 737s: it is the best...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | March 12, 2019
Last year was full of cybersecurity disasters, from the revelation of security flaws in billions of microchips to massive data breaches and attacks using malicious...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | January 16, 2019
Late one Wednesday in March 2015, an alarm sounded in the offices of GitHub, a San Francisco-based software firm. The company's offices exemplified the kind of...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | January 10, 2019
Once it was fashionable to fret about the prospect of super-intelligent machines taking over the world. The past year showed that AI may cause all sorts of hazards...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | January 8, 2019
In 2013 I moved from Paris to Beijing to study China's financial system. I stayed for two years and became fluent enough to translate economics books from Mandarin...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | December 26, 2018
Guess what? I just got hold of some embarrassing video footage of Texas senator Ted Cruz singing and gyrating to Tina Turner. His political enemies will have great...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | September 5, 2018