"Two billion people carry a supercomputer in their pocket that has been optimized — by the world's smartest engineers — to extract their attention against their own interests. That is not design failure. That is coordination weaponized."
Former Google design ethicist who exposed Silicon Valley's deliberate exploitation of cognitive vulnerabilities. Co-founded the Center for Humane Technology to reverse the attention economy's race to the bottom of the brainstem. His Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma brought the persuasive technology critique to mass audiences.