Tools and Weapons
The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age
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Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne examine difficult choices faced by technology companies as their products become entangled with governments, security, and public life.
The book addresses the opportunities and risks of digital technology through questions of privacy, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and corporate responsibility.
It closes the technology sequence with a governance question: what obligations follow from building tools that can serve many different purposes?
Why I include it
I emphasize accountability: the people who design powerful technologies also bear responsibility for how they are used.
