Nov 6 · 11 min read
What principles not to disrupt: on AI and regulation
Speech delivered at Stanford University’s Fall Conference of the Institute for Human-Centered AI, Regulating Big Tech, October 28, 2019
(The video of this speech can be found here)
Last week I participated in an Intelligence Squared debate, on the proposition: ‘Europe has declared war on American tech companies’. I am happy to report the audience at the end of the night, was convinced this is not the case. If it would have been a few days later, the proposition might have been: ‘US Congress has declared war on tech companies’. In that light, merely regulating big tech seems like an olive branch.
Clearly, in Europe and the United States, questions of governance to safeguard rule of law, public interest, and the protection of individual rights amidst technological change and geo-political shifts, are at the top of the agenda. The question is how to implement?

