But by far the most immediate danger is the role that AI data analysis and generation plays in spreading disinformation and extremism on social media. They exercise near-monopoly control over the social media market, and a range of other digital services. Meta, through its ownership of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, and Google, which controls YouTube, dominate much of the social media industry. Finding the best way to regulate a powerful and complex industry like big tech is a difficult problem. The global nature of corporate power renders the ability of national governments in democratic countries to restrain big tech increasingly limited.

Source: The Guardian December 17, 2021 09:27 UTC