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Is essentially dead. so thatsjust, you know, how easy it was for washington to cripple a chinese tech company. and if you look at the latest us export controls the that is the most aggressive actions that from the us we have seen. previously the us was targeting individual chinese companies, but this time the scope has expanded to the entire country. beijing has gone to the world trade organization and has lodged a complaint regarding these controls. i mean, does beijing have a point? whats happ...

If you look at the latest us export controls, that is the most aggressive actions that from the us the world has seen. previously the us was targeting individual chinese companies, but this time the scope has expanded to the entire country. beijing has gone to the world trade organization and has lodged a complaint regarding these controls. i mean, does beijing have a point? whats happening right now is an arms race. theres an arms race between the chinese military and the us military in the asi...

Us about what he calls a mid—course correction for the internet — an idea called solid. so, instead, imagine a world where before you use an app, it says to you, "where do you want to store this data?" all across the data spectrum, you have complete control over your private and personal data, which is very exciting — an exciting vision, i think, for those people who get an inkling of what its going to be like. right now, when we interact with companies over the internet, often without eve...

Software firms face unique challenges in keeping new algorithms under wraps. From the involvement of multiple employees, to the thorny issue of ‘explainability’, Sarah Speight delves into the complex world of AI trade secrets.

The former product manager on Facebook's civic integrity team made the comments on a special edition of NBC News' Meet the Press.

Government regulation. but what is the best way to regulate social media? is it to make them -- is it to get rid of 230 and let the courts have at them? like, you know, no more special protection? is it a new law? is it algorithm transparency? what is in your view acceptable regulation? >> i do think more transparency around the algorithms is necessary. i like what senator klobuchar is saying on that front. my only concern with a 230 repeal it is may accidentally increase censorship on social me...

The primaries, he fell down a rabbit hole, he became more and more radicalized. watching him drift away at the same time i was working on the algorithms of pinterest. i would see the glaring deficits. the they would have these things like a carousel under every post. they show you other posts. can you tell theyre bafrpged on clicks because the extreme version of whatever you saw. you click on an article about the election. it shows you the pope endorses donald trump. and it turned out it was who...

Algorithm thing is similar to at which time eastern tiktok and youtube? >> 100%. the most important things that elon musk can do to prove he wants to have a public square is he can publish the algorithms. >> open source. >> yeah. open source it. he had more help. it would be cheaper for him and more profitable. companies like tiktok have the exact same problems. tiktok is it designed around being censored. it comes from china. it is designed to amplify things so much theenl a few pieces of dont ...

They dont grow at the level the market expects, the stock price crashes. so theyre afraid to take even a small action because they will decrease the profit of the company. >> i want you to react to nick. hes done a host writing. and this is one where it feels like he may have well used the shrug he moejy. easy to blame everything on algorithms. we need to look ourselves in the mirror and not wrap ourselves in the false comfort that were manipulated by machines all along. hey this isnt on us, thi...

And their idealism is what really attracts the funding and a lot of interest by engineers that want to work there. they do want to change the world. but theyre not motivated to look around the corners for potential problems because their eye is always on growth and eyes have always been on really growing that business model. >> elizabeth, would you argue is the problem the companies or is the problem us? >> i think that the problem -- a the lot of things that get blamed on social media are human...