How AI Designers will Dictate Our Civic Future

Technology designers are the new policymakers. No one elected them, and most people do not know their names, but the decisions they make when producing the latest gadgets and online innovations dictate the code by which we conduct our daily lives and govern our country. Challenges to the privacy and security of our personal data are part of the first wave of this change; as technology progresses, says Latanya Sweeney, every demographic value and every law comes up for grabs and will likely be redefined by what technology does or does not enable. How will it all fit together or fall apart? Join Sweeney, who after serving as chief technology officer at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, has been helping others unearth unforeseen consequences and brainstorm on how to engineer the way forward.