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EU should regulate Facebook and Google as ‘attention utilities’

While it may create marginal advantages for the bloc in the race to control data and artificial intelligence, it fails to address the way digital technology platforms are degrading democracies. When I was working as a design ethicist at Google, I saw how the emergence of the “attention extraction” business model led to vast individual and societal harms. The social media platforms now intermediate the way we construct shared truths and social relationships. Read More...

While it may create marginal advantages for the bloc in the race to control data and artificial intelligence, it fails to address the way digital technology platforms are degrading democracies. When I was working as a design ethicist at Google, I saw how the emergence of the “attention extraction” business model led to vast individual and societal harms. The social media platforms now intermediate the way we construct shared truths and social relationships.

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