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How the Unchecked Power of Companies Is Destabilizing Governance
In The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley, Marietje Schaake, a Stanford HAI Policy Fellow, reveals how tech companies are encroaching on governmental roles, posing a threat to the democratic rule of law.
In The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley, Stanford institute for Human-Centered AI Policy Fellow Marietje Schaake aims to raise public awareness about a serious threat: the unchecked power of private companies. And then we need to bring the same level of legal clarity, accountability mechanisms, and transparency measures to the digital realm that we expect around other innovations such as medicines, chemicals, foods, cars, or even processes such as the decision to engage in foreign conflict. But I think the precautionary principle is a useful concept to address situations where tech company engineers are themselves surprised by the behavior of AI models, or where society and lawmakers and citizens don’t know or understand how a particular innovation will impact their lives.
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