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Regulating Big Tech: Is Global Coordination Possible?

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27 Aug 2024
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8 Mar 2025, 01:04 pm

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The Lowy Institute explores the challenges and prospects of global coordination in regulating Big Tech, focusing particularly on online safety and the implications of AI. The conversation between Lydia Khalil and Australian eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant highlights Australia’s pioneering role in establishing a government regulatory agency aimed at enhancing citizen safety online. It delves into the hurdles of aligning domestic regulatory efforts with global internet governance, touching upon the geopolitical dimensions of tech regulation. This dialogue draws from Moses Khalil's policy brief 'Overcoming digital threats to democracy,' offering insights relevant to Australian and international AI governance and safety frameworks, particularly in addressing the interplay of digital safety and democracy.

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Regulating Big Tech: Is global coordination possible?On this pageAUDIOPOLICY BRIEFPodcastsRegulating Big Tech: Is global coordination possible?27 August 2024On this pageAUDIOPOLICY BRIEFAustralian eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant leads the world’s first government regulatory agency committed to keeping its citizens safer online. While her appointment is domestic, the internet is global. In this episode ofConversations, the Lowy Institute’s Lydia Khalil talks with Inman Grant about what she learned from her previous experience working in the tech industry, how to regulate it, global efforts to coordinate online safety, particularly around AI, and the geopolitics of tech regulation.AUDIOPOLICY BRIEFIn February 2024, the Lowy Institute published a Policy Brief by Lydia Khalil entitled "Overcoming digital threats to democracy", which is the basis for this podcast conversation. Read the full paperhere.Top