Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Article by Bryan Walsh.
On March 11, the Atlantic Council launched the GeoTech Center, a new think tank that will focus on the social impact of emerging technologies like AI, synthetic biology, personalized medicine and more.
Why it matters: How these technologies develop in the years ahead will have enormous impacts on society. The experts behind the GeoTech Center believe the government, the private sector and the public need to take an active role in understanding and shaping the use of “technology for good.”
I spoke with David Bray, a technologist who will be running the new center. A quick excerpt of our conversation follows:
What’s your aim for the center?
The hope here is that we can understand how these technologies are changing the nation, and define what we mean when we say “technology for good.” […]
