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Marietje Schaake

  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    Innovation
    Lobbying for unfettered innovation is bad for democracy

    Lawmakers should resist the efforts of Big Tech to protect its own interests

    Close-up of hand installing AI chip on futuristic circuit board.
  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
    Technology sector
    Political leaders must push back against tech bullies

    Companies should pay the price for their aggression

    Thierry Breton and Elon Musk in Texas in May 2022
  • Tuesday, 30 April, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Military is the missing word in AI safety discussions

    Government attempts to regulate the technology must look at its use on the battlefield

    Image of IDF solders seen from behind standing on a roof and looking down
  • Wednesday, 13 March, 2024
    Technology sector
    Our stressed-out power grids need help

    The climate crisis demands good data that measures the footprint of high electricity users

    An engineer runs diagnostic tests at a data centre in Romania mining crypto coins
  • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    AI is too important to be monopolised

    Public investments are essential to levelling the computational playing field

    A man walks through a data centre. Antitrust agencies must ensure that the largest AI companies do not grow impossibly large
  • Tuesday, 9 January, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    It’s already time to think about an AI tax

    Jobs will be displaced or erased by the next chapter of the tech revolution, and companies must share the social costs

    Elon Musk at the UK’s AI safety summit
  • Tuesday, 5 December, 2023
    Artificial intelligence
    The route to AI regulation is fraught but it’s the only way to avoid harm

    France, Italy and Germany are opposing EU plans to impose curbs on artificial intelligence foundation models

    montage of digital brain and EU flag stars
  • Tuesday, 31 October, 2023
    Artificial intelligence
    There can be no AI regulation without corporate transparency

    AI companies are growing ever more secretive as their power and profiles blossom

    A digital display representing an AI-powered neural quantum processor in the Samsung Electronics Co. hall at the IFA Consumer Electronics and Home Appliances trade fair in Berlin in 2022
  • Monday, 2 October, 2023
    Artificial intelligence
    When it comes to AI and democracy, we cannot be careful enough

    Without adequate precautions, next year’s elections could descend into chaos

    An election official registers a voter at a polling station in India
  • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Businesses scent a tech opportunity in Ukraine war

    As a test bed for new technologies, the conflict prompts perverse enthusiasm from companies — and worries about over-dependence

  • Tuesday, 11 July, 2023
    Technology regulation
    It’s time to let go of the global internet dream

    Democracies must step up and regulate the online world as it is, rather than how they want it to be

    Sunlight shines through water onto an undersea cable
  • Sunday, 4 June, 2023
    Artificial intelligence
    We need to keep CEOs away from AI regulation

    Policymakers must not let complexity stop them from doing their job

  • Tuesday, 2 May, 2023
    Technology regulation
    Regulating AI will put companies and governments at loggerheads

    AI developers and lawmakers would benefit from a deeper understanding of each other

    AI developer Geoffrey Hinton speaks during  an exclusive interview by the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper at a Tokyo hotel in 2019
  • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
    Cyber Security
    National security is teaching the US to love tech controls

    America once shied away from ‘the r-word’ but tech now faces a regulation revolution

    A hand holds up a smartphone with the TikTok logo on the screen with a US and Chinese flag in the background
  • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
    Technology sector
    Tech lay-offs are a golden opportunity for the public sector

    There is a wealth of talent out there ready to be snapped up to work for the common good

    Aerial of the Silicon Valley glowing during nighttime
  • Sunday, 8 January, 2023
    Technology regulation
    US regulatory action on the tech sector may come too late — or not at all

    New EU laws could set an example to Washington in reining in social media platforms, AI and crypto

  • Sunday, 11 December, 2022
    Cyber Security
    Tech companies must start sharing intelligence to avert global conflicts

    A dialogue would keep governments alert to threats and allow firms to access state support in crises

    Two soldiers run towards an apartment building as a fire consumes it
  • Friday, 4 November, 2022
    X Corp
    What Musk’s first week at Twitter tells us

    The world’s richest man must now assume responsibility for the platform’s many choices and trade-offs

    Elon Musk says he wants to protect free speech on Twitter, but this is likely to clash with other responsibilities such as tackling disinformation
  • Wednesday, 18 May, 2022
    X Corp
    If Elon Musk does buy Twitter, free speech absolutism will not be enough

    The possible new owner of the platform will soon learn how hard it is to retain the trust of users

    Young women use mobile phones
  • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
    Big Tech
    Privacy concerns should not block EU’s attempts to curb big tech power

    While there are details to come about combining security and competition in the Digital Markets Act, it is not mission impossible

  • Monday, 7 March, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Big Tech faces a moral reckoning in Ukraine

    Platforms need to be more transparent on changing their business models over Russia’s aggression

  • Tuesday, 8 February, 2022
    Political espionage
    The EU must decide how to limit the use of spyware by member states

    Accusations the Polish government used NSO technology against political opponents put pressure on Brussels

    Polish opposition politician Krzysztof Brejza
  • Monday, 10 January, 2022
    Social Media
    Greater online transparency is the key to defending democracy

    The fallout from the assault on the US Capitol has drawn fresh attention to the dangers posed by social media

    A social media post in support of the US Capitol riots. Over the past year, remarkably little has changed to ensure that hate speech does not again lead to violence
  • Tuesday, 7 December, 2021
    Technology sector
    Europe needs to wake up to the costs of hosting massive data centres

    Meanwhile, companies must be more transparent in their planning applications

    A Google data centre in Eemshaven, the Netherlands. Google and Microsoft data centres in the Dutch town of Wieringermeer are expected to consume 525 cubic meters of drinking water per hour
  • Wednesday, 10 November, 2021
    NSO Group Technologies
    We need a new global standard to curb intrusive spyware

    When tech companies can freely undermine national security, democracies are at risk

    A smartphone with the website of Israel’s NSO Group
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