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.
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Data & Society"Discriminating Tastes" examines how bias may creep into evaluations of Uber drivers through consumer-sourced rating systems. Read moreOctober 2016 -
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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 -
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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 -
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Data & SocietyWhat will happen to current regimes of liability when driverless cars become commercially available? What happens when there is no human actor—only a computational agent—responsible for an accident? "Praise the Machine! Punish the Human!" addresses these questions by examining the historical emergence and response to autopilot and cruise control. Read moreFebruary 2015