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Navigating the risks and benefits of AI: Lessons from nanotechnology on ensuring emerging technologies are safe as well as successful

  • Written by Andrew Maynard, Professor of Advanced Technology Transitions, Arizona State University
imageThe course of nanotechnology, like the carbon nanotubes in this laboratory, has been guided by many stakeholders.VCG/VCG via Getty Images

Twenty years ago, nanotechnology was the artificial intelligence of its time. The specific details of these technologies are, of course, a world apart. But the challenges of ensuring each technology’s...

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