Americans Need a Bill of Rights for an AI-Powered World

In the past decade, data-driven technologies have transformed the world around us. We've seen what's possible by gathering large amounts of data and training artificial intelligence to interpret it: computers that learn to translate languages, facial recognition systems that unlock our smartphones, algorithms that identify cancers in patients. Eric Lander is science adviser to the president and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Alondra Nelson is deputy director for science and society at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. But these new tools have also led to serious problems.