AI NATIONALISM(S): GLOBAL INDUSTRIAL POLICY APPROACH TO AI
In this essay collection we survey the nationalist narratives and emergent industrial policies being proposed by governments with differing economic and geopolitical motivations.
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Key Measures to Combat Tech Power
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Algorithmic Accountability
An emerging AI Accountability template runs the risk of entrenching power within the tech industry, and undercuts structural solutions.
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Antitrust
Structural reforms are key to fixing the harms caused by Big Tech.
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Biometrics & Affect
Despite mounting evidence of harm and untested scientific claims, biometric systems are still quietly proliferating.
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Climate
Big tech infrastructures are locking us into an unsustainable future.
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Global Digital Trade
Global trade laws are typically negotiated in secret and without public deliberation, and have become a focus for intense tech industry lobbying for preferential treatment.
Underexplored Policy Windows
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Labor & Tech
Worker data rights are only a starting point: we’ll need bright-line rules to meaningfully build worker power.
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Large-Scale AI Models
Industry narratives attempt to stave off regulation, but large-scale AI needs more scrutiny, not less.
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Privacy & Competition
Regulating Big Tech’s data advantage.
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AI Industrial Policy
Wrestling with the advantages and disadvantages of government-funded AI – and the industries that underpin them
Data Minimization as a Tool for AI Accountability
Data minimization policies – bright line rules that prohibit excessive or harmful data collection and use – are a tool for AI accountability.