#61 - Helen Toner on emerging technology, national security, and China

<p>From 1870 to 1950, the introduction of electricity transformed life in the US and UK, as people gained access to lighting, radio and a wide range of household appliances for the first time. Electricity turned out to be a general purpose technology that could help with almost everything people did.</p><p> Some think this is the best historical analogy we have for how machine learning could alter life in the 21st century.</p><p> In addition to massively changing everyday life, past general purpose technologies have also changed the nature of war. For example, when electricity was introduced to the...