Reenergizing democratic institutions through the sensible regulation of Big Tech

Three Stanford professors discuss their new book, System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot, in a 26-minute video. One clip from this interview: “we’re at a moment where AI technology has gotten sufficiently powerful and also concentrated in a lot of places where substantial decisions are being made about our lives that we may be unaware of. […] And so as life continues to progress, there’s going to be more places where it gets automated. That becomes crucial to understand how are those systems being evaluated; what sort of transparency and due processes is there to be able to understand what they’re doing and to challenge the decision of those algorithms; and at the same time, understanding what data is being collected about us and fed into these algorithms. Also, are they being audited for things like bias that might exist in the data or reinforcing historical patterns that we don’t actually want to see, but that we think somehow are more objective because they’re made by a computer? Really what AI gives us, is it gives us a mirror to our society.”