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How More Regulation for U.S. Tech Could Backfire

Harvard Business

If 2017 was the year that tech became a lightning rod for dissatisfaction over everything from the last U.S. Innovation and its discontents are nothing new, of course, going back at least to the 18 th century, when Luddites physically attacked industrial looms. Alberto Manuel Urosa Toledano/Getty Images. In the U.S.,

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The Worldwide Race for AI: Will the U.S. Continue to Lead in 2018?

Tom Spencer

might lag behind in the race for AI technology for three reasons: AI remains off the high-level national agenda; there has been a reduction in national funding for science and technology; and strong regulations add barriers to innovation. The rise of AI has been compared to the Cold War space race. Pundits argue the U.S. How will that work?

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Can We Keep Our Biases from Creeping into AI?

Harvard Business

The good news is that AI is an opportunity to build technology with less human bias and built-in inequality than has been the case in previous innovations. The good news is that AI is an opportunity to build technology with less human bias and built-in inequality than has been the case in previous innovations.