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AI expert Marietje Schaake: ‘The way we think about technology is shaped by the tech companies themselves’
- Marietje Schaake, the international policy director at Stanford University Cyber Policy Center and former Dutch member of the European parliament, shares her thoughts on the problematic relationship between technology, politics, and power.
- The role of tech companies such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon in so many different aspects of people's lives, makes them very different animals to what we've seen in the past.
- Schaake believes that democratic government oversight should be strengthened to ensure that tech companies take their proper roles within a rule of law-based system, and are not overtaking it.
- Politicians have been light touch in the face of the digital technological revolution and have been held back by their technological ignorance.
- The UK's decision to leave the EU has not weakened its position with big tech, as Australia and Canada have also developed their own tech policies.
- Schaake's new book, The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley, aims to reach the average news reader and explain how US tech companies have caused a loss of sovereignty.
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