W. I should say im actually trained as a lawyer originally. Ive been at m. I. T. For more than 20 years. And ive alwaysorked with an Extraordinary Group of computer scientists. My research in all that time has always been in the Computer Science literature. But what im really most interested in is number one, how do help policymakers to make good decisions about Technology Policy and so that involves understanding the details of how cputer systems and Network Systems work. And probably more importantly, im really interested in how to evolve our Computing Technology so its more responsive to Public Policy needs. And ive been able to do that because ive worked with and continue to work with an Extraordinary Group of computer scientists and other researchers at m. I. T. And around the world. Can you give one example of how youve influenced policy . Well, people are probably well aware as an example that theres a big debate about the use of encryption technology. We need encryption to prot
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Hear and why do you persist in behaving as a democratic super pac. Were not doing that. And this is why i opened this hearing with calls for more transparency. We realize we need to earn trust more. Rerealize more accountability is needed to show intentions and show the outcomes. One of your researchers warned Senior Executives our algorithms exploit the the brains, more decisivdecisivenes time on the platform, more time on the platform, the Company Makes more money. Does that bother you what its done to politics . Senator, i respectfully disagree with how the systems work. We design our systems to show people the content thats going to be the most meaningful to them, which is not trying to be as divisive as possible. Most of the content on the systems is not political, its things like making sure that you can see when your cousin had her baby or okay. Okay. Im going to move on to google here but im telling you right now thats not what im talking about. The cousins and the babies here.
A recently published and me are working paper shows that many Public Companies are now changing how they communicate in order to appeal to algorithmic analysis of their Financial Filings and quarterly investment calls so financial analysts they have published a qualitative list of good and bad words commonly used in s. B. C. Filing now the study shows that the Public Companies have been using fewer of the bad words and regardless of the method found that management they tried to sound more upbeat so that Voice Analysis Software listening to the call would read these emotions as positive so its really interesting that as Technology Gets more sophisticated both written and spoken Financial Disclosure is adapting so aka disclosure is getting muddier and world pay as we go because management doesnt want to make any statement on future outlook given the global uncertainty and to management just started using more neutral terms and guidance as to avoid the wrath of the algos impacting their
Importantly i am really interested in how to evolve our Computing Technology so that it is more responsive to Public Policy needs. We need encryption to protect our email exchanges, our financial transactions, political speech that goes on. We hope privately online what it needs to. Governments for decades have ofn concerned that the use strong Encryption Technology would thwart the ability of Law Enforcement to conduct electronic surveillance. From a technical perspective, we look at that question and while acknowledging that encryption and pose some barriers for the police, we have shown through Technical Research that if you try to force all encryption palpable or have upkdoors, then you will end harvesting the security of the millions of people around the world to use the internet and Computing Technology, so well this is an ongoing debate, even governments trying to control encryption have acknowledged that they should not do so in a way that introduces systemic weaknesses. At tha