In this conversation, Marietje Schaake – author of the new book The Tech Coup. How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley – discusses how tech companies have been eroding democracy and what makes their growing power into a systemic problem; compares the policies of democratic and authoritarian regimes; identifies issues where regulation would be urgently needed on the global level; and spells out crucial aspects of a specifically democracy-focused internet policy.
Marietje Schaake is international policy director at Stanford University Cyber Policy Center and international policy fellow at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Between 2009 and 2019, she served as a member of the European Parliament for the Dutch liberal democratic party D66 and was among the leading personalities shaping the EU’s policies on technology, trade, and foreign affairs. Marietje Schaake currently serves on the United Nation’s AI Advisory Body and she also writes a monthly column for the Financial Times on technology and governance.
The Tech Coup. How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley is published by Princeton University Press.
The conversation was conducted by Ferenc Laczó. Adam Hushegyi edited the audio recording.
