System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot - Couverture souple

Weinstein, Jeremy; Reich, Rob; Sahami, Mehran

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1529356717 ISBN 13 : 9781529356717

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton, 2021

Synopsis

A GROUNDBREAKING BOOK LOOKING AT HOW BIG TECH IS OBSESSED WITH OPTIMIZATION -- AND HOW WE CAN TAKE BACK CONTROL

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À propos des auteurs

Jeremy M. Weinstein is a professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. During President Obama's first term, he served as Director for Development and Democracy on the National Security Council staff at the White House between 2009 and 2011.

Rob Reich is professor of political science and professor of philosophy at Stanford University. He is the director of the Center for Ethics in Society and co-director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society.

Mehran Sahami is the director (and creator) of the Computer Science program at Stanford, the most popular major at the university (he is also an early Google engineer).

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

A forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors which reveals how big tech's obsession with optimization and efficiency has sacrificed fundamental human values and outlines steps we can take to change course, renew our democracy, and save ourselves.

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. Yet too few of us see any alternative to accepting the onward march of technology. We have simply accepted a technological future designed for us by technologists, the venture capitalists who fund them, and the politicians who give them free rein.

It doesn't need to be this way.

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.

Armed 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.

As the dominance of big tech becomes an explosive societal conundrum, they share their provocative insights and concrete solutions to help everyone understand what is happening, what is at stake, and what we can do to control technology instead of letting it control us.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hodder & Stoughton
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1529356717
• ISBN 13: 9781529356717
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
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• Personne responsable: non disponible