Even before 1960, when seventeen countries in Africa gained independence in a single year, American diplomats had identified ...

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Critics are right: the algorithms that increasingly run the world can be dangerous. Are human systems always better?

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Anna Romina Guevarra is Founding Director and Associate Professor of Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago and a Public Voices Fellow of the OpEd Project. She is author of ...

Olivia Cheng is an MFA student in fiction at the University of Michigan. Previously, she worked in Silicon Valley managing engineering teams. “She stuffed spinach in her mouth until her teeth were a ...

Tobias Hübinette is a Senior Lecturer at Karlstad University. He is a member of the Research Group for Culture Studies (KuFo) and was previously responsible for the Forte-funded Research Network for ...

The self-serving myths of a new wave of defense tech, from Palantir’s Gotham to Israel’s Gospel. Yawning gaps in the law empower police to collect and store massive amounts of data, all on the grounds ...

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