Urs Gasser

Urs Gasser is a professor and leading scholar on the governance of digital technologies. He has held positions at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and other leading institutions, and his research focuses on how societies can govern emerging technologies responsibly. Guardrails examines how societies can build effective governance frameworks for technology — the rules, institutions, and norms that channel innovation in ways that benefit people while limiting harms. Gasser argues that getting technology governance right is one of the most important challenges of our time. The audiobook and book versions offer listeners and readers an essential, timely work on technology policy. Gasser's work appeals to policymakers, technologists, business leaders, and anyone concerned about how we govern the technologies that increasingly shape every aspect of our lives.