Superintelligence

At Noema, Nathan Gardels reports on computer scientist William Hinton, who contrasts AI with analog computation: By contrast, digital computation “makes it possible to run many copies of exactly the same model on physically different pieces of hardware, which makes...

Technology and Community

Nathan Gardels at Noema: Democracy in its republican form is fundamentally about how diverse citizens within one community relate to each other through the institutions of self-government. And where there are interpersonal relations, there are ethics of communication...

Technology Assessment and Congress

M. Anthony Mills at National Review: The OTA was designed to help Congress legislate more effectively in these technical policy areas and to hold accountable the executive-branch agencies charged with science and technology policy-making. What early advocates of...

Innovation Fellows

From LegBranch.org: TechCongress is building its next class of paid fellows. Hurry—there is less than 3 weeks to apply! See https://www.techcongress.io/congressional-innovation-fellows for details and instructions. More here: By 2020, technology will touch virtually...