# kaal:claim:3808867-022

**Claim.** Regulating centralized technology conglomerates addresses only part of the problem, because even fully regulated conglomerates retain the power to set standards and norms for emerging technologies that government cannot effectively trace; microdemocratic decision making can set such standards outside their control metrics.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- centralized technology conglomerates that increasingly act like governments

**Source quote.**

> Even if fully regulated, centralized technology conglomerates still have the power to set standards and norms for emerging technologies that government cannot effectively trace.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *How Decentralized Systems Can Upgrade AI* (2021), III. Technological Microdemocracy, page 12

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, How Decentralized Systems Can Upgrade AI (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808867

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**Failure mode.** Regulation cannot reach private standard setting  (family: enforcement-gap)

**Topics.** institutional-design

**Keywords.** big-tech, regulation, standard-setting, microdemocracy

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