Politico Scientists must spearhead ethical use of big data The recent revelation that the National Security Agency collects the personal data of United States citizens, allies and enemies alike has broken the traditional model governing the bond between science and society. Most breakthrough technologies have dual uses. Think of atomic energy and the nuclear bomb or genetic engineering and biological weapons. This tension never […]
CNBC Your GMO Frankenfood to be farmed by Google algos Big data is the new A-bomb Not since Robert Oppenheimer faced down his demons after spearheading the Manhattan Project have scientists been faced with as big an ethical dilemma as big data represents, says Albert-László Barabási,a physicist and network scientist at Northeastern University and Harvard Medical School, in a Politico op-ed this past week. “This summer, while visiting […]