Monthly Archives: August 2019

On me, and the Media Lab

Posted on August 20, 2019 by Ethan

(Please be sure to read the addendum at the end of this post.) A week ago last Friday, I spoke to Joi Ito about the release of documents that accuse Media Lab co-founder Marvin Minsky of involvement in Jeffrey Epstein’s … Continue reading →

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Training the next generation of ethical techies

Posted on August 14, 2019 by Ethan

My friend Christian Sandvig, who directs the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing at the University of Michigan, started an interesting thread on Twitter yesterday. It began: “I’m super suspicious of the “rush to postdocs” in academic #AI ethics/fairness. Where … Continue reading →

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Philanthropy and the hand-off – what happens if government can’t scale social experiments?

Posted on August 5, 2019 by Ethan

My friend and (lucky for me) boss Joi Ito has an excellent essay in Wired which considers the challenges of measuring the impact of philanthropy. For Joi, one of the key problems is that social problems are complex, and the … Continue reading →

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