Tech executives and venture capitalists have high hopes VP pick Kamala Harris will bring a moderate touch to regulating AI, data and facial recognition
Public scrutiny of fields such as artificial intelligence, digital surveillance and cybersecurity have sparked more talk in Congress about a slew of new laws for the tech industry. Tech executives and venture capitalists have high hopes California’s junior senator will bring a moderate touch to those conversations and to regulating large and small businesses alike.
Newsletter Sign-up CIO Journal The Morning Download delivers daily insights and news on business technology from the CIO Journal team. In a New York Times interview last year, Ms. Harris didn’t say whether the federal government should break up Big Tech, but did call for consumer privacy protections. Though California has a statewide privacy law, company officials and industry lobbyists have increasingly called for a federal standard to avoid a patchwork of state-level statutes.
“The issue of reducing algorithmic bias based on race, gender, etc. is already key for her and is likely to become even more important,” said Arijit Sengupta, founder and chief executive of Aible Inc., a Foster City, Calif.-based AI company.
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