Raisina Dialogue 2024 | Code, Court & Constitution: Challenging Tech’s Monopoly on Influence | There is a growing narrative that tech companies are facing a backlash from states around the world. Yet the duty of the state is to define the landscape in which tech operates. Tech regulation is, on the one hand, limiting innovative spaces; on the other, under-regulation is allowing innovators to code laws without any democratic accountability.
This is particularly problematic in the age of AI, the development of which implicates multiple domains from bioethics to market dynamics. Naturally, concerns have emerged that technological innovation is pushing ever further into domains traditionally overseen by the state—from platforms that have greater power over speech than even courts to digital connectivity that is now subject to commercial dimensions. If a consensus is not evolved on a regulatory approach, then other authorities—from courts to bureaucracies—will step in.
How can the state reclaim spaces crucial to the delivery of public goods?
If technology and its owners and operators span national borders effortlessly, is global regulation essential to ensure states retain domains that have traditionally been theirs?
Can we create global coalitions that balance both sovereignty and innovative energy?
Is there a danger that uninformed or overenthusiastic regulation will stifle innovation?
On the other hand, if vaccines can have a three-stage approval process, why not digital products?
Speakers:
Bibek Debroy, Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, India
Brendan Carr, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission, United States
Bassant Hassib, Non-Resident Scholar, Middle East Institute, United States
Stephanie Diepeveen, Senior Research Fellow, ODI, Netherlands
Sunil Abraham, Director, Public Policy India - Data Economy and Emerging Tech, META, India
Moderator:
Caitríona Heinl, Executive Director, The Azure Forum for Contemporary Security Strategy, Irelan
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