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| Mathias Risse
April 21, 2021, Paper: "In contrast to China’s efforts to upgrade its system of governance around a stupefying amount of data collection and electronic scoring, countries committed to democracy and human rights did not upgrade their systems. Instead,those countries ended up with surveillance capitalism. It is vital for the survival ofthose ideas about governance to perform such an upgrade. This paper aims to contribute to that goal. I propose a…
| Mathias Risse
April 12, 2021, Video: "Towards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century is a talk series organized and facilitated by Mathias Risse, Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs and Philosophy. Drawing inspiration from the title of Max Tegmark’s book, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, the series draws upon a range of scholars, technology…
April 5, 2021, Video: "THINKERS, is a presentation of Thinkers50 India, which is about discussing new ideas, new thoughts, addressing challenging issues, forging new paths, and in the process creating an ever widening circle of thought leadership. Further, we seek to create synergies in the thought leadership space by integrating the online and offline experiences. Thinkers50 India is a joint initiative of Institute for Competitiveness, India…
| Shane Greenstein
2021, Book Chapter: "A conventional economic narrative provides intellectual underpinnings for governments to subsidize research and development (R&D) that coordinates risky research to benefit many in society. This essay compares this narrative with the origins and interventions of the internet."
Non-HKS Author Website - Shane Greenstein
| Shoshana Zuboff
March 25, 2021, Video: "Shoshana Zuboff, professor emeritus of Harvard Business School and author of "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism," says lawmakers did their homework before questioning big tech CEOs. She's on "Bloomberg Technology."
Non-HKS Author - Shoshana Zuboff
| Shoshana Zuboff | Sushma Raman | Mathias Risse
March 22, 2021, Video: "Join us for a Conversation with Shoshana Zuboff where she will discuss Surveillance Capitalism and Democracy. Towards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century is a talk series organized and facilitated by Mathias Risse, Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and Berthold Seitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs and Philosophy. Drawing inspiration from the title of Max Tegmark’s book, Life 3.…
| Debora Spar
March 2, 2021, Audio: "The Industrial Revolution of the 18th century paved the way for large-scale mechanization that the world had never seen before. For the first time, we had steam engines, factories and mass production — a departure from the largely agrarian society of the previous centuries. But how exactly do periods of great technological innovation shape the nature of human interaction? This question, among others, is the subject of a…
| David Y. Yang
February 24, 2021, Video: "The conventional wisdom suggests a misalignment between autocracy and technological innovation. In this project, we examine whether there exists a political and economic alignment between the monitoring aims of autocracies and the innovative aims of AI firms. We gather comprehensive data on firms and government procurement contracts in China’s facial recognition AI industry. We find two results. First, autocrats benefit…
| Dani Rodrik
February 8, 2021, Opinion: "Recent patterns of technological change in the rich world have made it more difficult for low-income countries to develop and converge with income levels in the developed world. These changes have contributed to deepening economic and technological dualism even within the more advanced segments of developing countries’ economies." …
January 2021. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Bruce Schneier, Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and Fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, on technology security, social media, and regulation. |…