Algorithms are a threat to society and so far, academia is asleep at the wheel.https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/14/opinion/academia-tech-algorithms.html …
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Yet, almost all the best work is academic—despite profound pressures. Honestly, “ivory tower” issues exist but that’s like talking about interior decoration while an arsonist wants to burn down a house because the inhabitants are still a threat to the powerful.
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Support funding and political protection and there will be 50 such institutions tomorrow. Majority are not “asleep at the wheel”—they are under purposeful attack. Sure, maybe Stanford will lag. Who knows? But higher education isn’t just that.
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