“It’s staggering to think about how much extraordinarily intimate information [Google] has about billions of people, literally… There is a roomful of Stasi dossiers on each one of us.”

Opening few grafs of this interview got me hooked! @mer__edith let him know!!!

So much in this. But always love the idea of organising as ‘connective tissue’ between people, movements & change. The challenge of #bigtech is big capitalism, not the #tech @mer__edith #futureofwork #AIEthics #data #equality #bias

“I’m certainly not anti-computers or anti-technology, but I think we have to recognize these as questions of power and control, and not questions of the hypothetical, benevolent uses of these technologies.”  —  @mer__edith in onezero.medium.com/ex-googler-mer… by @Kantrowitz

Describing social media algorithms as capable of hacking our "lizard brains" perpetuates a myth (told by the companies) that this tech is superhuman. But a lot of this isn't innovation, it's the product of concentration of power & resources -- @mer__edith onezero.medium.com/ex-googler-mer… pic.twitter.com/YOt48Ob2nx

.@mer__edith on power, control and busting the myth of tech omnipotence -- in conversation with @Kantrowitz on @ozm onezero.medium.com/amp/p/5382c7ca… pic.twitter.com/IedWS0SDrA