Making Technology Less Manipulative [Entire Talk]

Innovation
Technology must be designed to enhance people’s lives, not just dazzle them. Your startup’s stated mission and bottom-line concerns should be one and the same.
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57:02
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Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders

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Season 13

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5

How good are you at limiting your screen time? Because of the way humans evolved, our brains are no match for the engineers, designers and companies that collectively create the devices and apps that demand our attention all day long, according to technology ethicist Tristan Harris. A former tech entrepreneur himself, Harris is now co-founder of Time Well Spent, a nonprofit movement to create an ecosystem that aligns technology with our humanity.

Video clips from: Making Technology Less Manipulative [Entire Talk]

  • The End Game of AI
    5:51
    We have pointed AI at the human mind. It’s goal: capture our attention.
  • A More Ergonomic Relationship with Tech
    5:23
    You can’t beat AI. Period. You need to refocus AI so that you work together. You need to reprogram AI with goals that replenish rather than extract.
  • Ways to Retake Control
    2:03
  • The Magic of Persuasive Design
    4:01
    Technology must be designed to enhance people’s lives, not just dazzle them. Your startup’s stated mission and bottom-line concerns should be one and the same.
  • Making Technology Less Manipulative [Entire Talk]
    57:02
    Technology must be designed to enhance people’s lives, not just dazzle them. Your startup’s stated mission and bottom-line concerns should be one and the same.
  • Escaping the Echo Chamber
    2:37
  • The Persuadable Brain
    4:24
    Ask yourself, is there a gap between your values and your metrics? Do your metrics for success undermine or support your most altruistic and aspirational goals?
  • Questioning What You Do
    4:57
    The largest tech firms through a single screen influence billions of people each day. It is an enormous responsibility. As entrepreneurs, technologists, coders, creators, we must keep asking, are we making a net positive impact?
  • What Is Ethical Persuasion?
    2:52
    Technologies presents as accessories or tools. In reality, technologies are sophisticated persuasion machines. As builders and users, we must choose to see technology as it is.

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