Tech without humanities ‘ends in situations like that of Uighurs’

AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton tells THE summit that non-science disciplines are vital to shaping how tech is used

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September 1, 2021

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September 1, 2021

Person walks in a minefield trying to deactivate the devices on the outskirts of the Kurdish town of Halabja, Iraq as a metaphor for ‘Tech without humanities leads to problems’

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Danger zone ‘self-healing’ mines and surveillance of Uighurs in China demonstrate perils of omitting humanities in tech rollout

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