Excerpt: ″Originally, dual use technology would have applied only to a dichotomy between military and civilian uses. But in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US, the term evolved to refer to research like that of pathogens, yielding new insights that can both help and hinder, regardless of the military/civilian nature of application. Now, the question of the age might be whether there are dual use ideas. Can innovations in mathematics enable both beauty and harm? Can computational algorithms speed ranking of resumes, yet simultaneously amplify historical biases in hiring?″
Source: publicbooks.org
Source: publicbooks.org