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Should This Exist? The Ethics Of New Technology

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Caterina Fake. She's a co-founder of Flickr, a venture capitalist, and host of the podcast Should This Exist? about the impact of technology on humanity.

Not every new technology product hits the shelves.

Tech companies kill products and ideas all the time — sometimes it's because they don't work, sometimes there's no market.

Or maybe, it might be too dangerous.

Recently, the research firm announced that it would not be releasing a version of a they developed, because of fears that it could be misused to create fake news. The text generator was designed to

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