Tim Hwang is a partner at Robot Robot & Hwang, a law firm and technology consultancy focusing on experiments at the intersection of legal and computer code. He leads an initiative seeking to develop general principles and common frameworks to guide policymaking as intelligent systems emerge and become increasingly ubiquitous in a variety of arenas including capital markets, warfare, medicine, transportation, and social life at large.
Tim Hwang
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Data & SocietyTim Hwang and Moira Weigel discuss the way that big tech financializes attention. Read moreOctober 2020 -
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Wiley Online LibraryJune 2017 -
report
Data & Society"Discriminating Tastes" examines how bias may creep into evaluations of Uber drivers through consumer-sourced rating systems. Read moreOctober 2016 -
report
Data & SocietyD&S researchers Alex Rosenblat and Tim Hwang explore "the significant role of worker motivations and regional political environments on the social and economic outcomes of automation" in this report. Read moreOctober 2016 -
Book or Chapter
Data & SocietyD&S researchers Madeleine Clare Elish and Tim Hwang discuss the social challenges of AI in their collection of essays, An AI Pattern Language. From the authors: How are practitioners grappling with the social impacts ... Read moreSeptember 2016 -
report
Data & Society"The Wisdom of the Captured" analyzes how widely captured data of technologies, which enable these technologies to make intelligent decisions, may negatively impact users. Read moreSeptember 2016 -
op-ed
SlateD&S Researcher Tim Hwang and Samuel Woolley consider the larger trend toward automated politics and the likely future sophistication of automated politics and potential impacts on the public sphere in the era of social medi... Read on SlateMarch 2016 -
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Points"How to Think About Bots" is the first output of a weeklong workshop at Data & Society that was led by “Provocateur-in-Residence” Sam Woolley and brought together a group of experts to get a better grip on the questions tha... Read on PointsFebruary 2016 -
op-ed
Fusion"In order to best understand the new technologies in our lives, it may be more useful to look to stage magicians than to source code." D&S researcher Tim Hwang discusses recent technological deceptions carried out by dev... Read on FusionNovember 2015 -
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Transition 2015In this video from Transition 2015, D&S fellow Tim Hwang gives an overview of "Why Standards Matter" in his presentation that provides insight into the power that global standards have to mold the world. Read moreOctober 2015