Center for Technology Innovation

An Occupy Wall Street movement activist raises his fist while protesting in front of a digital flag of the United States in Manhattan's Time Square in New York on July 17, 2012. REUTERS/Adrees Latif (UNITED STATES - Tags: CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY) - GM1E87I0W6M01

Malevolent soft power, AI, and the threat to democracy

Thursday, November 29, 2018

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify before a Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees joint hearing

The Federal Trade Commission will safeguard privacy in name only

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

A vehicle drives past the solar panels near wind turbines at a wind and solar energy storage and transmission power station in Zhangjiakou

China’s Belt and Road Initiative is poised to transform the clean energy industry

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Facial recognition: Coming to a street corner near you

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM EST

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Who should profit from the sale of patient data?

Monday, November 19, 2018

Alina Peter, AP-Ops Room Coordinator at the Singita Grumeti Fund watches screens displaying information coming from EarthRanger, a real-time conservation data visualisation and analysis software in the operations room at the Singita Grumeti Game Reserve, Tanzania, October 7, 2018. Picture taken October 7, 2018. REUTERS/Baz Ratner - RC1E4F1F3070

Using big data and artificial intelligence to accelerate global development

Jennifer L. Cohen and Homi Kharas

Thursday, November 15, 2018

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2015 (SPIEF 2015) in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 19, 2015. Putin said on Friday Russia was doing well in tackling its economic crisis, aggravated by Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis and a fall in global oil prices. REUTERS/Grigory Dukor - GF10000133125

Weapons of the weak: Russia and AI-driven asymmetric warfare

Alina Polyakova

Thursday, November 15, 2018

Imformatics PHD student Sebastian Bitzer performs push up exercises with a programmed Kondo humanoid robot at the newly opened Imformatics Forum building of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland September 3, 2008. The university's new 42 million pound ($74,734,800) development brings together over five hundred scientists whose interests include virtual reality, robotics, artificial learning and intelligent systems. REUTERS/David Moir (BRITAIN) - GM1E4931OMW01

Artificial intelligence and the future of geopolitics

John Villasenor

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi reacts alongside fellow House Democrats to the results of the U.S. midterm elections at a Democratic election night rally in Washington, U.S. November 6, 2018. REUTERS/Al Drago - RC12CAFEB860

The Supreme Court and House Democrats breathe new life into net neutrality

Friday, November 9, 2018

Dr. Doreen Muth from the virology institute of the Bonn Faculty of Medicine looks at a 24-way plague assay of viruses culture plates in the western German city of Bonn May 31, 2013. The virology institute of the Bonn university researches on viruses with the help of bat and human cell culture models and reverse genetic systems for corona viruses (SARS-Coronavirus, HCoV-NL63) to characterize and compare the functions of homologous viral proteins from newly identified viruses. Picture taken May 31, 2013. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay (GERMANY - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY HEALTH) - BM2E97H0ZK401

Defining pre-existing conditions in an era of genetic testing

Jack Karsten and Darrell M. West

Monday, November 5, 2018