Regulate technology? Congress needs to enlist expert help - SFChronicle.com
In the absence of an institutional effort to study and implement technology, Congress has lost its capacity to effectively regulate and utilize tech-based innovation. One need only watch some of the recent congressional hearings with Big Tech leaders.
People fear what they don’t understand. It’s an old refrain but it has proved true when it comes to policymaking and technology advances. From artificial intelligence to nuclear energy, oftentimes policymakers have opted for complete bans rather than nuanced considerations for how to maximize the benefits of the technology while reducing downside risks to the environment, marginalized communities and job displacement. There was a time when Congress recognized that it needed help understanding new technologies so that it could better harness those advances for good. In that era, from 1972 to…
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