Tools and weapons : the promise and the peril of the digital age /
Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne
- New York : Penguin Press, c2019
- xxii, 346 pages ; 25 cm.
Includes index.
The cloud: The world's filling cabinet -- Chapter 1. Cybersecurity -- Chapter 2. Surveillance -- Chapter 3. Technology and public safety -- Chapter 4. Privacy -- Chapter 5. Nation-state attacks -- Chapter 6. Protecting democracy -- Chapter 7. Social Media -- Chapter 8. Digital diplomacy -- Chapter 9. Consumer concerns -- Chapter 10. Rural Broadband -- Chapter 11. The Talent Gap -- Chapter 12. AI and ethics -- Chapter 13. AI and facial recognition -- Chapter 14. AI and the workforce -- Chapter 15. Democratizing the future -- Chapter 16. the United states and the China -- Chapter 17. Tech and the Nation state -- Chapter 18. Tech in a pandemic -- Chapter 19. Conclusion
In Tools and Weapons, Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne take us into the cockpit of one of the world's largest and most powerful tech companies as it finds itself in the middle of some of the thorniest emerging issues of our time. These are challenges that come with no preexisting playbook, including privacy, cybercrime and cyberwar, social media, the moral conundrums of artificial intelligence, big tech's relationship to inequality, and the challenges for democracy, far and near.