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Broussard: Self-driving will never work

Meredith Broussard is a data journalism professor at New York University and author of Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World. Her research focuses on AI in investigative reporting, with a particular interest in using data analysis for social good. Broussard also has worked as a software developer at AT&T Bell Labs and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab. (SAMUEL LAHOZ)
April 22, 2019 04:00 AM

This essay was adapted from a debate April 13 in New York on the motion “All Hail the Driverless Car” as part of the nonprofit debate series Intelligence Squared U.S., in partnership with the Manhattan Institute’s Adam Smith Society. The entire debate will air soon on public radio and is available to hear now at intelligencesquaredus.org.

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