My name is Zach Whiting, policy director and Senior Fellow for Better Tech for Tomorrow, an initiative of the Texas Public Policy Foundation. I am testifying in support of SB 417. The Foundation is grateful for your leadership on keeping kids safe online. SB 417 is an important first step, and we are encouraged to see several other bills filed this session that we hope your committee will expeditiously take up.
Driverless cars are another step away from human agency
Big tech’s utopia may not be all its cracked up to be. Self-driving cars? That’s nothing new — Leonardo da Vinci designed one in the 16th century. And the machine, which some call the world’s first robot, would have worked, historians and researchers later confirmed. In fact, a working model of the clockwork-driven mechanism is currently housed at the...