Classic Collingridge Dilemma

October 24, 2024
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Is regulation stopping innovation? Can it, should it do so?

Here is the "Classic Collingridge Dilemma" (1980):

• Any effort to control innovative technology faces a double bind.

• During the initial stages, when control would be possible, not enough is known about the technology’s harmful social consequences to warrant slowing its development.

• By the time those consequences are apparent, however, control has become costly and slow.

**This was originally posted on Andras Baneth's LinkedIn account.