Excellent op-ed by Rachel Coldicutt:
"When I went to [Geoffrey] Hinton’s Q&A in Cambridge this past summer, he spoke with ease and expertise about neural nets, but admitted he knows little about politics or regulation or people beyond computer labs. These last points garnered several laughs from the audience, but they weren’t really funny; they spoke to a yawning gap in the way that technology is understood, spoken about, and covered in the media."
"Understanding technologies requires also understanding power; it requires social, cultural, political, and media literacy as well as technical literacy; incisive questioning and sober critique as well as shock and awe. And while algorithmic audits are important for technological transparency, narrative analysis is vital for understanding power—particularly when there is such a striking deficit between actions and words."