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20 Apr 2023, 5:10 am by Margot E. Kaminski
Risk regulation thus embodies what Jessica Eaglin has called  a “techno-correctionist” tendency prevalent in scholarship on AI systems: the tendency to try to make technology “better” rather than to question the politics and appropriateness of its usage and to explore more systematically whether, given its harms, it should be used at all. [read post]
15 Apr 2023, 11:43 am by Tom Smith
Such a materialist, mechanistic, techno-determinist, and reductionist worldview is consistent with the transhumanist belief that humans themselves will soon be succeeded by a new transhuman species, or humanity-plus (h+)—perhaps a genetically and AI-enhanced cyborg that will outstrip ordinary humans and make the latter virtually obsolete. [read post]
11 Apr 2023, 1:15 pm by Lauren Bass
” Those innocuous words “spoken” by Matthew Broderick’s computer in John Badham’s sci-fi techno-thriller War Games stunned audiences at the time. [read post]
1 Apr 2023, 2:47 am by INFORRM
” Focusing on the Digital India Act, the second panel, India’s Tech-xistential Questions: Identifying and Predicting Regulatory Patterns, will “delve into the transformative undercurrents of the techno-legal space in India. [read post]
23 Mar 2023, 4:05 pm by Lawrence Solum
Some prominent lawyers and legal scholars now adhere to a vision of the future heavily seasoned with Silicon Valley-style techno-utopianism: the legal profession may endure but only in a form in which it would be almost unrecognizable today, while legal innovators will need to immerse themselves in the possibilities opened up by artificial intelligence in order to survive. [read post]
22 Mar 2023, 2:00 am by Katharine Van Tassel
Cahoy (Pennsylvania State University), The Techno-Optimist Case for Addressing Sustainability and its Grounding in Capitalist (Market) Incentives (2023): The effort to create a more sustainable society touches on many facets of the environment, public policy and social responsibility.... [read post]
18 Mar 2023, 2:06 pm by Kevin Bercimuelle-Chamot
Both the conference and the volume aim to analyse techno-legal aspects of the data scraping phenomenon. [read post]
18 Mar 2023, 8:08 am by Guest Author
*This is the final post in a symposium on Orly Lobel’s The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future, selected by The Economist as a best book of 2022. [read post]
15 Mar 2023, 10:00 pm by Guest Author
In the The Equality Machine, Orly Lobel expertly presents a nuanced view of both the positive and negative aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) technology.[1]  This is no small feat, as it has become increasingly popular for commenters on emerging technologies to fall into one of two polarized camps: techno-solutionism or techno-criticism. [read post]
14 Mar 2023, 7:00 am by Greg Lambert
  Iantha Haight disproves the assumption of native technology competency in her article “Digital Natives, Techno Transplants: Framing Minimum Technology Standards for Law School Graduates”. [read post]
10 Mar 2023, 10:00 pm by Guest Author
  The first, beautifully represented by the dazzling dust jacket, is an exercise in techno-optimism—a paean to the potential for digital technology to serve as a force for societal equality. [read post]
22 Feb 2023, 6:53 am by Simon Lester
The latter—competitiveness—matters because it determines either the trade balance or the value of the currency, and can determine the techno-economic strength of the economy. [read post]
22 Feb 2023, 6:53 am by Simon Lester
The latter—competitiveness—matters because it determines either the trade balance or the value of the currency, and can determine the techno-economic strength of the economy. [read post]
14 Feb 2023, 8:06 am by Tom Smith
But his proposed solution would in the end only help birth the modern techno-nihilist total state and provoke a cataclysm of violence.To read Schmitt seriously is to flirt with the abyss. [read post]
3 Feb 2023, 3:01 pm by Dan Harris
You have almost certainly heard by now that there is a massive Chinese spy balloon currently hovering over U.S. airspace in violation of international and U.S. law. [read post]
18 Jan 2023, 5:00 am by Guest Author
At its core, network neutrality regulation aims to constrain intelligence-enabled social control by infrastructure owners so that users retain their freedom in an under-determined techno-social environment. [read post]
17 Jan 2023, 5:00 am
It is the minimizing of constraints and trade-offs in favor of techno-utopianism and the exclusive emphasis on positive outcomes and novelty. [read post]
7 Jan 2023, 7:37 am by Eric Goldman
They say: “techno-libertarian (or even just plain old libertarian) ideas about free markets and information freedom play a surprisingly small role in the public discourse, despite the technology corporations’ relentless emphasis on them. [read post]
7 Dec 2022, 1:24 pm by Mark Movsesian
The Religion of Humanity failed to take off, but plenty of people seem to think that a new version, a Silicon Valley inspired techno-utopianism of the "brights," may be the civil religion of the American future. [read post]