Latifa Akharbach, President of the Moroccan High Authority for Audiovisual Communication (HACA), attended a Columbia University conference in New York on the theme “Platform regulation: overcoming obstacles.”
At the event, organized on March 30 and 31, Akharbach said that content moderation as practiced by huge platforms faces numerous issues, as private corporations that operate as digital platforms cannot control and regulate public discourse.
Governments are not compelled to prohibit free expression, but private and commercial enterprises are permitted to do so, she further stated.
Using artificial intelligence as an example, Akharbach also highlighted the reality that legislation must continually adapt to technological acceleration.
“The increasing usage of artificial intelligence creates numerous risks,” said HACA’s president.
Learning algorithms create discriminatory scenarios. Furthermore, there are numerous possibilities of infringing on individual freedom as a result of algorithmic confinement created by the personalization of content on digital platforms.
Similarly, she argued, to be ethical, future artificial intelligence must consider humanity’s diversity.
Addressing the possibility of extending the applicability of some legislative texts, such as the European Union’s Digital Services Act, to the rest of the globe, the president of the HACA stated that social media platforms operate on a worldwide and cross-border market.
They must therefore be held accountable on this scale, especially given the global nature of the hazards in the digital public sphere.
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