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"Navigating the Promise and Perils of Innovation: Law and Technology at a Crossroads"
Innovation presents unparalleled opportunities to transform society. On the one hand, technological advances promise enormous benefits. For example, AI and Big Data analytics can improve numerous facets of society, from streamlining the delivery of government services to accelerating drug discovery to enhancing the efficiency of solar panel manufacturing. Relatedly, clean technologies can decrease greenhouse gas emissions and even sequester carbon, thus mitigating global climate change. On the other hand, technological advances can harm society in significant and unpredictable ways. AI and Big Data analytics present a host of harms, such as threatening privacy, enabling discrimination in automated decision-making, exacerbating unemployment, and facilitating fraud, deception, and misinformation. And widespread industrialization and technology-driven greenhouse gas emissions have created a climate change crisis that threatens humanity. Taken together, these harms enable the very real possibility of societal collapse.
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