Nearly half of Americans believe artificial intelligence will hurt their daily lives more than help them, and a growing share worry the technology will widen the gap between rich and poor. That ...

Simon Johnson, Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management and head of the Global Economics and Management group, delivered a live presentation on technology and inequality in ...

Supporting journalism focused on the skewed consequences of covid-19. In the spring of 2021, MIT Technology Review announced a fellowship focused on exploring the different ways in which technology ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is sounding the alarm that generative artificial intelligence could impact a significant share of jobs worldwide, and warned the technology's disruption of the ...

I was dismayed to recently encounter this headline in The New York Times: “Dependence on Tech Caused ‘Staggering’ Education Inequality, U.N. Agency Says.” The Times story highlighted a UNESCO report ...

Plus: the US has accused Russia of meddling ahead of the Presidential election This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the ...

There is a Big Lie pushed by centrist types that is almost as pernicious as the Big Lie that Donald Trump won the 2020 election. It is that inequality was driven by technology, an autonomous force in ...