Deborah Lindsay Williams
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Vanity Fair, Elon Musk, AI, and Frankenstein’s (unexpected) Monster

by Deborah Quinn | Apr 28, 2017 | Children, Education, Feminism, Gender, Politics, tech life

Vanity Fair magazine recently ran a profile of Elon Musk that focused on the ways that Musk is at odds with other tech gurus about the relative merits of artificial intelligence (AI). Musk, who thinks that A.I. is humanity’s biggest threat, is quoted as saying...

Commencement Time, or what does a dinosaur have to do with the liberal arts?

by Deborah Quinn | May 22, 2015 | Abu Dhabi, Education, NYUAD, The National, UAE

It’s graduation time all over the US and in Abu Dhabi, NYUAD students are readying themselves for the same ritual.  And as students prepare to march across all manner of stages and listen to all manner of speeches, it seems appropriate to think about what we...

Dave Eggers Has a New Book…and Big Brother look like a nice guy by comparison

by Deborah Quinn | Nov 3, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, Books, tech life, The National

I wrote a review of Dave Eggers’ new book, The Circle, for the newspaper here, and in their quest for space, the editors cut the first line of the review.  (I know–my deathless prose, snipped! Unbelievable.) Here’s the line: “I didn’t...

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