Facebook has been working on artificial intelligence that claims to be great at negotiating, makes up its own language and learns to lie.
Newsweek From ACM Opinion | August 8, 2017
On September 14, 2016, days before the premiere of Oliver Stone's hagiographic movieSnowden, Human Rights Watch, the American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty...Newsweek From ACM Opinion | January 5, 2017
Rachel Law, the 20-something co-founder of a New York startup called Kip, is sitting next to me at a café, tapping her phone screen to show how the company’s service...Newsweek From ACM Opinion | September 16, 2016
In another 10 years, the very idea of a "black box" flight data recorder on an airliner will seem as naive and outdated as a smoking section.Newsweek From ACM Opinion | April 2, 2014
Keeping track of what we reveal about ourselves each day—through email and text messages, Amazon purchases and Facebook "likes"—is hard enough.Newsweek From ACM Opinion | March 17, 2014
In February 2013, Lindsey Vonn—perhaps the most accomplished female skier in American history—tore her anterior cruciate ligament in a crash in the mountains of...Newsweek From ACM Opinion | February 21, 2014
Technology will soon make officials at high-level sports events as obsolete as elevator operators, their skill set as useful as knowing how to make a wood tennis...Newsweek From ACM Opinion | February 18, 2014
Right now, the average person's data footprint—the annual amount of data produced worldwide, per capita—is just a little short of one terabyte.Newsweek From ACM Opinion | December 26, 2013
After leaker Edward Snowden revealed the existence of massive domestic-surveillance programs operated by the NSA, the airwaves were clotted with pundits and politicians...Newsweek From ACM Opinion | June 21, 2013
Amid all the job losses of the Great Recession, there is one category of worker that the economic disruption has been good for: nonhumans.Newsweek From ACM News | July 19, 2011
Here is how Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, describes the current state of affairs on the Internet: "Say I’m walking through a mall...Newsweek From ACM Opinion | January 4, 2011
The Valley used to be a place run by scientists and engineers, people like Robert Noyce, the Ph.D. physicist who helped invent the integrated circuit and cofounded...Newsweek From ACM Opinion | September 24, 2010
Have the activists behind WikiLeaks—and in particular the Web site's founder, Julian Assange—become intoxicated by their own myth? Two recent events involving...Newsweek From ACM Opinion | August 30, 2010
All Americans--whether brown, white, or black--should be required to carry a passport showing they are red, white, and blue.Newsweek From ACM Opinion | May 14, 2010
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has long defended his company's decision to do business in China despite the restrictions that Beijing imposes on Internet freedom. Nevertheless...Newsweek From ACM Opinion | January 21, 2010