We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads

Online social change: easy to organize, hard to win

We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads - Zeynep Tufekci

Podcast and Liveblog: Zeynep Tufekci, “The Boom-Bust Cycle of Social Media-Fueled Protests”

Zeynep Tufekci delivers a keynote address for the #PathogensProject Conference held April 19-20, 2023. Tufekci is the Craig Newmark Professor of Journalism at Columbia University, an author and columnist for The New York Times, and a contributor to The Atlantic. Watch the full speech via our YouTube channel. #biosecurity #biorisk #virus #science | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Zeynep Tufekci: How Do We Build Systems Of Trust Online?

Zeynep Tufekci: We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads Share this idea We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci. In an eye-opening talk, she details how the same algorithms companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon use to get you to click on ads are also used to organize your access to political and social information. And the machines aren't even the real threat. What we need to understand is how