Event

What Lurks Beneath: Digital Devices, Security, and the Future of Tech Privacy

Meredith Broussard, author of “Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World" (MIT Press, 2018), and Josephine Wolff, author of "You'll See This Message When It Is Too Late: The Legal and Economic Aftermath of Cybersecurity Breaches" (MIT Press, 2018), discuss the challenges of writing about the threats and risks posed by new technologies.

**Free & open to the public. Seating is on a first come, first served basis. RSVP here.**

At a moment when technology firms seem to be increasingly under fire from regulators in the U.S. and abroad, but more and more devices continue to be networked and controlled by computers, what are realistic and effective solutions for addressing societal concerns about emerging technologies? How can journalists, technologists, and policy-makers describe these risks in non-hyperbolic terms that effectively convey the stakes of our decisions about how to grapple with technology without ignoring or erasing all of the positive impacts these same innovations have had? At this moment of intense scrutiny on the major tech firms, what measures might it make sense to try to put in place to preserve security, privacy, and fairness and who is best poised to make that happen?