Richard Whitt on human autonomy and making the Web more trustworthy

POWER PLAYS

English - July 13, 2021 10:00 - 44 minutes - 36.1 MB
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Today on POWER PLAYS presented by Grant for the Web, Richard Whitt - an 11-year veteran of Google's policy team and now Fellow in Residence with the Mozilla Foundation - speaks with Ayden Férdeline about how we can create a future where the Artificial Intelligence lurking behind our various digital interfaces doesn’t automatically cede to an institution's priorities and incentives over a person's well-being.

A transcript of today's conversation can be found here: https://www.powerplays.xyz/podcast/s2-e2

Reading List:

Richard Whitt's law journal article, "Hacking the SEAMs: Elevating Digital Autonomy and Agency for Humans" (Colorado Technology Law Journal, 2021): https://ctlj.colorado.edu/?p=720