In the wake of high-profile data breaches at Cambridge Analytica, Yahoo, Equifax, and other companies, privacy issues are increasingly the focus of attention and conversation. But privacy is a complicated issue, and often a contested one: Is privacy a human right? How much privacy are we willing to give up…

Lessons for the new Partnership on AI Nonprofit Two weeks ago, Amazon, Google, Deep Minds, Facebook, IBM and Microsoft launched a new nonprofit called, Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society. Generally, the goals of this venture are to: (1) support best practices, (2) create an open platform…

Loosening Silicon Valley’s Grip For all the growing interest and hype around artificial intelligence, most of us still know very little about how this technology is being developed. Although, the academic community has been involved in the development of AI for many years now, there’s a growing industry/academia nexus taking…