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Kaye Husbands FealingKaye Husbands Fealing, Dean and Ivan Allen Jr. Chair in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, was quoted in the article "Power of a post: democracy in a digital age," published Jan. 31, 2021 in Technique.
In the article, which recapped a discussion between Husbands Fealing and Peter Swire, professor of law and ethics in the Scheller College of Business, on January 20, when Joe Biden was inaugurated as president.
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The idea of this act was to cut new technology companies a break so they could grow. Now however, a new question has begun to arise — at what point should online platforms be liable?
Swire offered his opinion.
“I do think the companies should have better procedures to address disinformation and fraud and these problems,” Swire said. “… They should have transparency about the terms of service. They have to have algorithms to try to help human judgment.”
[Husbands] Fealing pointed out that algorithms still have issues.
“I think you’re hinting at the term of artificial intelligence methodologies that can be used here, which also have sometimes some biases built in one way or another,” Fealing said. “… I think the technologists need to get at this, but also the social scientists and as you said as well the legal sector as well, in terms of developing some practical solutions.”
