How are new technologies transforming our jobs, companies and relationships?. Artificial intelligence is now a household term, and while we can’t physically see it, we know it’s hidden inside our mobile phones, automobiles and wearable devices, just to name a few. To better map and understand the changes that affect the core of society’s relationships, organizations look to Harvard’s Professor Jonathan Zittrain.
Few are as accomplished, esteemed and engaging as Jonathan Zittrain. An expert on AI, cybersecurity and the future of work, he is a dynamic speaker as well as a master moderator of panels of some of the greatest minds of our age.
Zittrain addresses a key question of the modern era: in an age of rapid technological transformation, how do we build and restore trust and develop new social, economic, regulatory and ethical frameworks and strategies to address challenges we may have never before faced?
Jonathan Zittrain is one of the founders of the Berkman Klein Center, Internet & Society at Harvard University, where he also co-chairs the Berkman Klein Center’s Digital Pandemic Response Practice, an interdisciplinary program that works with public and private decision makers on questions Urgent issues and policy decisions on the use of digital tools and data. His compelling and thought-provoking insights are invaluable to leaders trying to make sense of a world that is changing faster than ever.
He is the author of the bestseller, “The future of the Internet and how to stop it”, which explores the idea that what makes the Internet special, and at the same time so vulnerable, is its open access.
An early AI researcher, a pioneer in the field of cyberspace and cyberlaw, and a contributor to multiple international Internet and societal research organizations, he has a nuanced understanding of AI and its complex regulatory and societal frameworks gained over the years. of a lifetime dealing with these very issues.
More recently, he has been a leading voice defining and clarifying pressing issues related to the ethics of data use by digital platforms such as Facebook; how digital assistants like Alexa and Google Home should be designed; the implications of autonomous cars; and the future of work in a world dominated by AI and automation.