Anne  Snyder

Anne Snyder

Scholar Title

MIT EECS | CS+HASS Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scholar

Research Title

Towards an AI Policy Toolkit

Cohort

2022–2023

Department

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Research Areas
  • CS+HASS
Supervisor

Aleksander Madry

Abstract

Social media platforms have transformed human interaction. They’ ve improved our lives by connecting us with people, removing barriers to collective action, and putting information at our fingertips. However, social media has also had some negative effects. There is also evidence that platforms may choose to not to mitigate these negative effects, leading to rising calls to regulate social media, as well as pushback against regulation. Some are concerned that regulation will make social media worse. We will build a qualitative dataset of proposed social media regulation in the US, and use this dataset to describe possible social media regulation with regard to legal, technical, and political feasibility and then focus on promising regulatory solutions.

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