“Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology”

Anu Bradford examines in her talk three competing regulatory approaches — the American market-driven model, the Chinese state-driven model, and the European rights-driven regulatory model — and discusses how governments and tech companies navigate the inevitable conflicts that arise when these regulatory approaches collide in the international domain. Which digital empire will prevail in the contest for global influence remains an open question, yet their contrasting strategies are increasingly clear. Digital societies are at an inflection point. In the midst of these unfolding regulatory battles, governments, tech companies, and digital citizens are making important choices that will shape the future ethos of the digital society. Anu Bradford lays bare the choices we face as societies and individuals, explains the forces that shape those choices, and illuminates the immense stakes involved for everyone who uses digital technologies. Speaker: Anu Bradford, Columbia University, USA Moderator: George Metakides, Digital Enlightenment Forum The Digital Humanism Lecture Series is funded by the Vienna Business Agency, a service offered by the City of Vienna, in cooperation with the Faculty of Informatics of TU Wien and TU Wien's Center for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (CAIML).