Haugen on how social media regulations can be applied to AI

“There are a lot of parallels … This is a book not so much about social media, it’s about opaque technological systems … For most of the 20th century, we had an industrial system that was largely inspectable … The thing about our modern times—and a lot of these AI’s fall right in this bucket—we can’t inspect them. It introduces a real power imbalance when the only people who get to ‘grade the homework’ of these companies, are the companies themselves … That’s a problem because as we saw with social media, companies cut corners … I think we need a consumer bill of rights.” - Frances Haugen