Gaining Power, Losing Control with Professor Jonathan L. Zittrain

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Description:	George Bemis Professor of International Law, Harvard University, Professor of Computer Science, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Professor, Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government. Lecture 1 - Between Abdication and Suffocation: Three Eras of Governing Digital Platforms Lecture 2 - With Great Power Comes Great Ignorance: What’s Wrong When Machine Learning Gets It Right

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George Bemis Professor of International Law, Harvard University, Professor of Computer Science, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Professor, Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Lecture 1 - Between Abdication and Suffocation: Three Eras of Governing Digital Platforms

Lecture 2 - With Great Power Comes Great Ignorance: What’s Wrong When Machine Learning Gets It Right


Created:	2020-02-03 12:33
Collection:	Clare Hall – Tanner Lectures
Publisher:	University of Cambridge
Copyright:	S. Hainsworth
Language:	eng (English)
Distribution:	World (downloadable)
Keywords:	Tanner; lectures; Digital; Technology;
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Abstract:	Jonathan Zittrain is the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Director of the Harvard Law School Library, and co-founder of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, human computing, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education. He is currently focused on the ethics and governance of artificial intelligence and teaches a course on the topic. His book, The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It, predicted the end of general purpose client computing and the corresponding rise of new gatekeepers.

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Jonathan Zittrain is the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Director of the Harvard Law School Library, and co-founder of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. His research interests include battles for control of digital property and content, cryptography, electronic privacy, the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture, human computing, and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education. He is currently focused on the ethics and governance of artificial intelligence and teaches a course on the topic. His book, The Future of the Internet -- And How to Stop It, predicted the end of general purpose client computing and the corresponding rise of new gatekeepers.

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