Troubled by the values that permeate the university’s student body and its culture, they worked together to chart a new path forward, creating a popular course to transform how tomorrow’s technologists approach their profession. Well-intentioned optimizers fail to measure all that is meaningful and, when their creative disruptions achieve great scale, they impose their values upon the rest of us.Īrmed with an understanding of how technologists think and exercise their power, three Stanford professors-a philosopher working at the intersection of tech and ethics, a political scientist who served under Obama, and the director of the undergraduate Computer Science program at Stanford (also an early Google engineer)-reveal how we can hold that power to account. Jeremy Weinstein, Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami. This optimization mindset substitutes what companies care about for the values that we as a democratic society might choose to prioritize. In no more than the blink of an eye, a naive optimism about technologys liberating potential has. System Error exposes the root of our current predicament: how big tech’s relentless focus on optimization is driving a future that reinforces discrimination, erodes privacy, displaces workers, and pollutes the information we get.
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In no more than the blink of an eye, a naïve optimism about technology’s liberating potential has given way to a dystopian obsession with biased algorithms, surveillance capitalism, and job-displacing robots.
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