Event Details
Organizer: Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at NYU School of Law
Location: Furman Hall • New York, NY
Date & Time: Wednesday, Mar 4 from 7:30 pm to 9 pm
Cost: Free
Overview
Join the Engelberg Center, the Information Law Institute, and S.T.O.P. for the U.S. launch of Albert Fox Cahn's Move Slow and Upgrade.
Shira Ovide, A.I. correspondent for the Washington Post, will discuss Move Slow and Upgrade with Co-Author Albert Fox Cahn of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project. Book discussion begins at 7:30; reception follows at 8:15.
For far too long, tech titans peddled promises of disruptive innovation - fabricating benefits and minimizing harms. The promise of quick and easy fixes overpowered a growing chorus of critical voices, driving a sea of private and public investments into increasingly dangerous, misguided, and doomed forms of disruption, with the public paying the price. But what's the alternative? Upgrades - evidence-based, incremental change. Instead of continuing to invest in untested, high-risk innovations, constantly chasing outsized returns, upgraders seek a more proven path to proportional progress. This book dives deep into some of the most disastrous innovations of recent years - the metaverse, cryptocurrency, home surveillance, and AI, to name a few - while highlighting some of the unsung upgraders pushing real progress each day. Timely and corrective, Move Slow and Upgrade pushes us past the baseless promises of innovation, towards realistic hope.