The writer is a fellow at Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. She is author of ‘The Tech Coup’
For the past year American tech companies have created a collective inaction problem by failing to speak out when core rule-of-law principles were attacked. Now they are in for a reckoning.
Too many CEOs thought they could benefit from quid pro quos and a close relationship with President Donald Trump. They cheered on his broad policies of deregulation and stayed largely quiet when his erratic policies hurt others. Now that the consequences of the Trump administration’s political discretion are landing closer to home, they are rediscovering their appetite for fair and transparent rules that apply to everyone.