The struggle between the use of math for benevolent or malevolent purposes carries from at least WWII into today’s debates on AI.

Lance A. Waller
Lance A. Waller is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. He publishes spatial statistical methods for epidemiology and disease ecology in biostatistical, environmental, and ecology journals and in the textbook Applied Spatial Statistics for Public Health Data (Wiley, 2004).