Sunday, April 11, 2021

Reporting on tech from India "feels like having a front-row seat to the country's rapid slide into authoritarianism", as Big Tech companies remain silent (Pranav Dixit/BuzzFeed News)

Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News:
Reporting on tech from India “feels like having a front-row seat to the country's rapid slide into authoritarianism”, as Big Tech companies remain silent  —  I love writing about tech.  But covering how a Hindu nationalist government is using it to destroy a secular democracy isn't what I signed up for.



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In China, recent warnings about existential AI risks are seen as distinctly Western or as a ploy to stop Chinese AI companies from overtaking their US rivals (Lily Kuo/New York Times)

Lily Kuo / New York Times : In China, recent warnings about existential AI risks are seen as distinctly Western or as a ploy to stop Chin...