Voices of Silicon Valley’s technologists and marketers are the loudest at the moment given they are akin to the horse’s mouth. Technologists, policymakers, lawyers, scholars, and civil society groups in many countries including India have been vocalising concern and firing up the conversation in respective communities. This is only a representative list, but a nod to all those who are steering the movement.
The impulse to check a message notification, the pull to visit YouTube, Facebook, or Twitter for just a few minutes, only to find yourself still tapping and scrolling an hour later. None of this is an accident. It is all just as their designers intended.
NIR EYAL, Author of ‘Hooked’
Global
Voices
Guillaume Chaslot
Former YouTube Engineer
Joy Buolamwini
Computer scientist
Founder, Algorithmic Justice League
Chris Hughes
Co-founder, Facebook
Lina Khan
Chairperson, US Federal Trade Commission
Cathy O Neil
Data scientist, Author
Alex Stamos
Former Facebook Chief Security Officer
Justin Rosenstein
Ex Google & Facebook
Creator of the 'Like' button
Jessica Dheere
Director, Ranking Digital Rights
Tristan Harris
Former Google Design Ethicist
Co-founder Center for Humane Technology
Tom Gruber
AI Product Designer
Co-creator of Siri
Maria Ressa
Journalist
CEO, Rappler
Aza Raskin
Inventor of 'infinite scroll'
Co-founder Center for Humane Technology
Brittany Kaiser
Former Cambridge Analytica
James Williams
Former Google advertising
Yael Eisenstat
Democracy Activist
Former CIA Officer
Former Facebook Election Integrity Ops Head
Carole Cadwalladr
Author, Journalist