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Hallam Stevens

Hallam Stevens is an associate professor of history at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and Associate Director of the NTU Institute of Science and Technology for Humanity. His research focuses on the history and social impacts of recent technologies including genomics, biotechnology, computers, big data, and algorithms. icon

Weeding Our Algorithmic Gardens

By Hallam Stevens

I’m usually not very worried about robots taking over the world. Skynet makes for entertaining science fiction, but the artificial intelligences we have now don’t ...

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