Should Google Always Tell the Truth?
Search-engine architects must decide when their creations should act as a kind of expert and when they should neutrally direct people to what they are seeking. What is Google’s responsibility to its searchers? In a Thursday panel at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Ashkan Soltani, the Federal Trade Commission’s chief technologist, offered a hypothetical that captured why that question is so difficult to answer. Before getting to that hypothetical, let’s assume […]