A professor of ethics and technology has told scientists and policymakers that digital technology like artificial intelligence'desperately' need to be regulated using an institutional framework and system of values. "People are becoming aware that this digital age is not neutral," he said. "It is presented to us mainly by big corporations who want to make some profit." Van den Hoven, a member of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE), said: "We need to think about governance, inspection, monitoring, testing, certification, classification, standardisation, education, all of these things. We need to desperately, and very quickly, help ourselves to it."