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Ed Markey: “This is an inanimate object. It has no values, good or bad. We are the ones who are going to have to animate it with the…”

On the recordMarch 23, 2015
This is an inanimate object. It has no values, good or bad. We are the ones who are going to have to animate it with the values that we believe it should have.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey discusses the responsibility of lawmakers to instill values in technology.

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