Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week-
- China’s rulers want more control of big tech (The Economist)
- Who Is Making Sure the A.I. Machines Aren’t Racist? (The New York Times)
- China builds advanced weapons systems using American chip technolog (The Washington Post)
- Facebook’s ad algorithms are still excluding women from seeing jobs (MIT Technology Review)
- How mRNA Technology Could Change the World (The Atlantic)
- Facial recognition beats the Covid-mask challenge (BBC News)
- ‘Technology’ Is the Most Useless Word in the English Language (Bloomberg)
- The French army is testing Boston Dynamics’ robot dog Spot in combat scenarios (The Verge)
- Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter (The New Yorker)
Some light reading- The Gambler, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky