Voters are concerned about AI models using incomplete data to make discriminatory predictions.
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How the Data for Progress Tech Team builds platforms that enable every member of staff to run a survey from sampling to fielding to weighting to charting to publication with confidence that our tools will support them each step of the way with verifiable record-keeping.
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By a +35-point margin, voters across party lines support establishing a dedicated federal agency to regulate AI.
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Seventy percent of voters are concerned about all Big Tech companies collecting and profiting off user information.
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Data for Progress finds widespread support for Biden's new legislative agenda, including among Independents and Republicans.
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A majority of voters believe certain restrictions should be enforced to prevent harmful speech and the spread of misinformation.
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Two-thirds of voters are concerned about companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Google wielding monopoly power to block competition.
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Voters strongly agree that social media enables the spread of lies and that social media CEOs profited off misinformation.
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Amazon is facing the largest unionization push in company history. Polling shows voters support Amazon workers unionizing by a 50-point margin.
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No company in America has profited more from the coronavirus pandemic than Amazon.
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While searching for a site to locate their second headquarters—dubbed “HQ2”—Amazon undertook a nationwide hunt for which city would hand them the biggest bag of money. States and municipalities created competing proposals for Amazon, with theatrics rivaling the Super Bowl Halftime Show. One location offering a hefty tax-incentive package was New York. Between state and local governments, Amazon was offered $3.5 billion in benefits, in exchange for both an agreement to create 25,000 jobs over ten years and $2.5 billion in development investment in a Long Island City campus. Some simple back-of-the-napkin math shows this incentive would equate to about a $140,000-per-job handout.
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When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared before the House Financial Services Committee last month to testify about Facebook’s controversial venture into banking, the overwhelming reaction from my colleagues on the committee was distrust. Through numerous apology tours and record-breaking fines over the years, Zuckerberg has shown again and again that Facebook cannot be trusted. Zuckerberg refused to commit to a specific regulator or answer essential questions about whether the Libra project, a blockchain digital currency, is the shadow banking system it appears to be, which is why I introduced the Keep Big Tech Out of Finance Act to block Libra from moving forward.
Throughout his testimony, Zuckerberg failed to explain why his worthy goals of making payments easier and expanding access to the unbanked could not instead be met by the Federal Reserve. But the public shares Congress’ skepticism that Facebook can be relied on to deliver on those goals. Data for Progress asked voters whether they “prefer to use currency devised by a private company like Facebook or currency devised by a public source like the federal government.” 53% of voters told Data for Progress that they would prefer a public source, while only 6% of respondents said they would prefer Facebook—an understandable result, since Facebook has a clear profit motive to develop Libra. The Fed is reportedly considering creating its own digital currency, which has huge potential to help the unbanked. And if the Fed expedites development of its own real-time payments system, as mandated by my bill with Rep. Ayanna Pressley, millions of Americans living paycheck to paycheck will benefit.
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