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Artificial Intelligence and Ethics
… she was struck and killed by a self-driving car. Although there was a human operator behind the wheel, an autonomous … between people and AI technologies, raises a host of ethical and proto-legal questions. What moral obligations … applications. Consider a prosaic-seeming social change: machines are already being given the power to make …
Issue: January-February 2019
The Rise of the Wind Industry
… As the Chinese , Spanish, Indian, and American governments subsidize the growth of wind technology as a source of renewable energy, they’re … to government subsidization, within a larger context of the rise of green businesses in multiple industries, including …
Issue: March-April 2012
Greening Global Finance
… Even as industrialized nations gradually rein in their greenhouse gas emissions, developing countries’ growth … by 2050, without some intervention, the decarbonization of advanced economies will be almost entirely negated by … of reaping the mostly global climate benefits that arise from making green investments.” (The atmosphere …
Issue: May-June 2025
Rise of the Little Guy
… a contract with a big record company; an author needed the promotional help of a commercial publisher. But no longer, points out Nicco … has its pluses, for sure. In the case of entertainment, the rise of the Internet has made it easier for the public to …
Issue: September-October 2013
Understanding AI Vulnerabilities
… safe is generative AI today? Yaron Singer , former McKay professor of computer science and applied mathematics and currently vice president of AI and security at …
The Chinese in America
… In the fall of 2016, writes Michael Luo ’98, “I was standing in the rain with my family and some friends, in front of a restaurant on Manhattan’s Upper East Side,” when a … history of earlier, often dismaying, confrontations and crises could not be more important. From the introduction, …
Issue: May-June 2025
River Mid-Rise
… The strong geometry of Machado and Silvetti Associates' contemporary architecture rises 15 stories in a modern interpretation of Harvard … Machado and Silvetti Associates' contemporary architecture rises 15 stories in a modern interpretation of Harvard …
Issue: September-October 2003
Caring for Your Heart
… action and mobilizes families, said Ami Bhatt ’96, one of a panel of heart disease experts who spoke at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health on February …
Against “Indifference”
… Lawrence S. Bacow spoke upon occasion about his mother, Ruth Wertheim—the only Jewish resident transported from her hometown of Londorf, Germany, to Auschwitz who survived the Nazi … why he had never been able to bring himself to visit one of the camps—until this past January, after the University …
Issue: May-June 2025
The Authoritarian Reflex
… days after Donald Trump surged through Super Tuesday toward the Republican presidential nomination, Harvard political … point. In a survey from 2011—well before the candidate’s rise—44 percent of Americans without college degrees approved of having a …
Issue: March-April 2020
The New Gender Gaps
… going to college, but his grades weren’t good enough for the schools he was interested in, he says. The summer before his senior year of high school, he interned at a water purification company … most men’s real wages have fallen, while most women’s have risen , and an increasing share of “prime-age men”—those …
Issue: May-June 2025
The Gravity of Glacial Melt
… In the popular imagination, sea levels rise in response to a … many scientists also assumed the same thing. That’s when professor of geophysics Jerry X. Mitrovica (then at the …
Issue: May-June 2010
The Digitally Enhanced Rise of PSY
… Church that he was “shocked” and humbled to be invited to the podium. But the “Gangnam Style” pop star hardly seemed nervous, riffing about his meteoric rise to stardom for more than an hour, which forced a … his lyrics, recalled attending Boston University School of Management in the mid 1990s, where he was known by the …
Computing in the Classroom
… On November 11, 1953, psychology professor B.F. Skinner sat in a fourth-grade math class, … It was Parents Day at his daughter Deborah’s school. The lesson seemed grossly inefficient: students proceeded … for the Ludic Century,” Zimmerman argues that the rise of computers parallels the resurgent cultural interest …
Issue: March-April 2015
Who Owns the Robots Rules the World
… Robots And Computers Could Take Half Our Jobs Within the Next 20 Years”…“Robots Could Put Humans Out of Work by 2045”…“White House Predicts Robots May Take Over … beat humans in Jeopardy, chess, and Go, it should be no surprise that they will soon be able to do many of our jobs as …
Issue: May-June 2016