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Articles by William Raduchel
New Taxes Could Help Manage Big Tech
Historically technology has undone the economic power it creates. IBM is a good example, still here, but living off its past and fumbling the future. Yet for the current generation of tech giants, this time may be different. It is hard to see what displaces the huge installed base that exists today for these companies. Artificial intelligence, mirror worlds, quantum computing——these will all play an important part in our future, but I am not sure they create a discontinuity.
Why We Should Treat Algorithms As Authors
Technology March 10, 2021 William Raduchel Strategic Advisor Under the law, what is an algorithm, especially sophisticated algorithms like the ones Facebook uses to order its news feed? I believe the answer is simple: An algorithm is an author and should be treated as one. Photo: Pexels Should social media companies continue to enjoy near-blanket protections from liability for content on their sites? It is an increasingly controversial question, but we face a classic legal mismatch.
How To Fix Facebook: Treat Algorithms As Authors
Should social media companies continue to enjoy near-blanket protections from liability for content on their sites? It is an increasingly controversial question. But we face a classic legal mismatch. Section 230 of the U.S. Communications Decency Act of 1996, which offers those protections, was never created with social networks in mind. Meanwhile, we need to hold the social networks to account, and there may be a creative way to amend this law to do it.
Our Excruciating and Ongoing Dilemma With Covid-19
Governments worldwide face an impossible challenge. The public wants them, expects them, to save them from Covid-19, but there is no way to do that. All policy seems based on the certainty that a miracle will occur. The media is focused on a vaccine as that miracle, and there are over a hundred vaccines in development. However, I have never heard any claims that a vaccine will be more than 70% effective, a level that could lead to genuine societal protection and mass immunity.
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