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Contact-tracing apps could help keep countries open before a vaccine is available. But do we have a sufficient understanding of their efficacy, and can we balance protecting public health with safeguarding civil rights? We interviewed five experts, with backgrounds in digital health ethics, internet law and social sciences.
Martial Hebert is the director of the Robotics Institute and dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. We spoke with him at the O’Reilly AI Conference in New York in April 2019, where he delivered a keynote talk, ‘AI and the robotics revolution’, and in a follow-up conversation.
