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FROM THE EDITOR // FOLLOW @JOHNFALCIONI THE RULES OF INNOVATION onsider a world with no technology our lives and in the future of the world. Cstandards. No codes like the ones Film critics will talk about the political ASME publishes to regulate pres- undertones of these films, but the films sure vessels, no rules to secure the safety raise hard-hitting questions over the gov- John G. Falcioni of cranes or elevators, or any other tech- ernance of artificial intelligence research Editor-in-Chief nology.