[humantech.com]
Technology is hijacking our minds and society.
A group of former Google and Facebook employees have created a group called the Center for Humane Technology, to raise alarms about technology hijacking our minds.
Early Facebook and Google Employees Form Coalition to Fight What They Built
- NYTimes
Jim Steyer, left, and Tristan Harris in Common Sense’s headquarters. Common Sense is helping fund the The Truth About Tech campaign. Credit Peter Prato for The New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO — A group of Silicon Valley technologists who were early employees at Facebook and Google, alarmed over the ill effects of social networks and smartphones, are banding together to challenge the companies they helped build.
The cohort is creating a union of concerned experts called the Center for Humane Technology. Along with the nonprofit media watchdog group Common Sense Media, it also plans an anti-tech addiction lobbying effort and an ad campaign at 55,000 public schools in the United States.
“The largest supercomputers in the world are inside of two companies — Google and Facebook — and where are we pointing them?” Mr. Harris said. “We’re pointing them at people’s brains, at children.”
"How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day"
From Facebook notifications to Snapstreaks to YouTube autoplays, they're all competing for one thing: your attention.
Together, we can can get technology platforms to stop hijacking our minds and start putting our well-being first.
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