Yuval Noah Harari: Corporations should be liable for the actions of their algorithms.

2 months ago
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"That corporations should be liable for the actions of their algorithms. Whenever you talk about it with the big tech companies, they immediately raise the flag of freedom of speech. We don't want to censor our users. The problem is not with the human users. Humans produce enormous amounts of content. Some of it is hate and greed, but there is also a lot of other good content. The problem is that the corporate algorithms of Twitter and Facebook and TikTok and so forth, they deliberately spread the hate and the fear and the greed because this is good for their business interests. And this is what they should be liable for, for the decisions and actions of their algorithms, not for what the human users are doing."

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