Recommender Systems: Approaches to Shape a Safe, Competitive, and Innovation-driven Future

In most digital platforms recommender systems provide consumers with recommendations across a variety of contexts. While recommender systems generate efficiencies by lowering the cost and improving the quality of product discovery, their impact on individuals’ purchase and consumption has the potential of affecting downstream competition of products and industries. These systems may also present sensitive issues for national security, democracy, and public health. Recommender systems have ther