This lecture will critically examine the growing influence of major technology corporations on global governance, democracy, and political institutions. How did Big Tech become a dominant force in governance? What are the regulatory and legal challenges posed by AI and digital monopolies? What is Big Tech’s role in shaping democracy and public discourse? What are the geopolitical dimensions of technology governance?
Speaker: Allison Stanger is an American political scientist and the Russell J. Leng '60 Professor of International Politics and Economics at Middlebury College, Vermont. She is also the founding director of Middlebury's Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, an Affiliate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, and Co-Director (with Danielle Allen) of the GETTING-Plurality Research Network at Harvard University. She is a founding member of the Digital Humanism Initiative (Vienna) and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Stanger has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 2004, and between 2009 and 2011, she worked as a part-time consultant to the United States Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff. Among Prof. Stanger's previous books are Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump (Yale University Press, 2019) and One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy (Yale University Press, 2009),
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