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Despite New England’s legacy of inventing the very term “artificial intelligence,” Boston-area institutions have not been credited with any of the major technologies fueling what could be the next trillion-dollar industry.
Less than two years after Facebook hired Frances Haugen to help correct dangerous distortions spilling across its platform, she had seen enough.
The idealism she and countless others had invested in promises by the world’s biggest social network to fix itself had been woefully misplaced. The harm Facebook and sibling Instagram were doing to users was rivaled only by the company’s resistance to change, she concluded. And the world beyond Facebook needed to know.
On Tuesday last week, when the 37-year-old data scientist went before the US Congress and the cameras to accuse Facebook of pursuing profit over safety, it was likely