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Adam Billen: What Technology Policy Must Confront

Eight focused conversations examine opaque systems, known harms, transparency, whistleblowers, and the public consensus for meaningful change.

In this story

  • Systems families cannot fully inspect

    Adam Billen explains why families are being asked to manage technologies whose inner workings and risks are often difficult for the public to see. Individual choices matter, but they cannot substitute for transparency and accountable product design. The series connects technical systems with the real conditions children and families face every day.

  • Policy priorities in the conversation

Digital Vanguard video series

Watch the conversation in 8 focused chapters.

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Chapter 01

Black-box systems replicate the structure of the brain

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Chapter 02

Systems we do not understand are interacting with our kids

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Chapter 03

Competition and transparency

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Chapter 04

We know only a fraction of the harms

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Chapter 05

Protect whistleblowers

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Chapter 06

No more revenge porn

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Chapter 07

Some saw AI coming years ago

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Chapter 08

Ninety percent agree—so why isn’t anything changing?

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