What place do ethics and values have in technology?
summary
Panel argues the advertising business model creates an attention economy that rewards time-on-site and features like autoplay, leading to addictive design; cites concrete harms — bots skewing Twitter, snap “streaks feature” driving compulsive use, and the claim that self-driving cars could displace ~15 million US jobs. Proposed fixes include philosopher-in-residence hires, a San Francisco sugar-tax style regulation mindset, a “Geneva Convention” for cyberattacks on elections, and personal experiments like 25 phone-free hours per week that participants say restores energy.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction to ethics in tech
- 1:55Job displacement and inequality
- 3:20Designing less addictive products
- 6:09Diversity and ethical blind spots
- 8:15Power of tech platforms
- 10:22Facebook’s role in elections
- 11:45Questioning your own thinking
- 13:28Ethical enterprise investments
- 14:30Peter Thiel’s controversial move
- 16:38Tech regulations and cyber warfare
- 17:39Which companies need ethics 101
- 19:44Optimism about tech’s future
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