A brief professional update - Last week marked the end of a wonderful journey at @techreview after five epic years. I've been so proud to be part of such a stellar newsroom and to have worked with fabulous people.
And though I'm leaving journalism for now, I'm really excited to keep working on tech policy. I will be starting on EY's global public policy team where I'll be focusing on emerging tech, AI, and geopolitics. I'm thrilled and grateful for all that's been and for what's ahead!
Exclusive: Google is launching new anti-censorship technology created in response to actions by Iran's government during the 2022 protests there, hoping that it will increase access for internet users living under authoritarian regimes all over the world. https://t.co/blVFPqfkvp
EXCLUSIVE: People are using AI chatbots to fill junk websites with AI-generated text that attracts paying advertisers, according to a new report shared with MIT Technology Review.
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These tactics, along with a Texas judge’s ruling against the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, are all part of a broader strategy to restrict access to abortion pills. https://t.co/SK4JL1TGKw
Today’s edition of The Technocrat is abt how @eileenGuo and I approached our @techreview story on a smart sensor project at CMU that sparked a heated debate on privacy in an elite compsci dept https://t.co/rvonTk5OWm
4/ The story took us over a year to report. We tried to present different points of view about privacy, consent, and the future of IoT while acknowledging the very real roles that power, process, and communication play in how tech is deployed and received.
When cool new smart sensors turned up at CMU's Institute for Software Research, not *everyone* was happy, as @eileenguo and @TateRyMo report today.
This terrific long read lays out the difficulties in understanding what privacy really means to people.
https://t.co/rxZzQQfEUb
The Technocrat is MIT Technology Review's new weekly newsletter on all things technology and politics, offering important insights into the way we relate to each other and our institutions, and how democracy is struggling to keep up. https://t.co/H0jur4CEGN
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