Technology
In The Tech Coup, former politician turned AI policy analyst Marietje Schaake warns that governments have ceded too much power to Silicon Valley—to the detriment of the public good.
Lawmakers have never been savvy about technology. In 2006, when then-US senator Ted Stevens described the internet as “a series of tubes,” an army of gleeful meme-makers crowed over a gaffe that seemed the epitome of our out-of-touch government. More than a decade later, little had improved. In 2018, C-SPAN viewers watched in disbelief as Facebook (now Meta) CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in a rare besuited appearance out of his trademark hoodie, politely explained to US Senator Orrin Hatch that…
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