Institute for Technology and Humanity: Ensuring technology benefits humanity

Ensuring technology benefits humanity Introducing the University's new Institute for Technology and Humanity A major interdisciplinary initiative aims to meet the challenges and opportunities of new technologies as they emerge, today and far into the future. The frenetic pace of technology in the 21st century is a double-edged sword. Emerging technologies could increase our prosperity and longevity, and help eradicate disease. However, they also hold the potential for conflict, democratic breakdown and climate crises. This is the “lesson of history”, …