Social media algorithms currently do more harm than good by incentivizing divisive and misleading content over factual information.

“Social networking, we're still arguing about what the policy should be. Algorithms reward outrageous things even if they're not at all factual.”

Social media companies exploit human psychological vulnerabilities through designs like infinite scroll and autoplay to maximize attention, which negatively impacts human flourishing.

“I saw how essentially there was this arms race for human attention and whichever company was willing to go lower on the brainstem to manipulate human psychology. This is exploiting like a back door in the human mind.”

Social media companies should be required to provide transparency regarding the functioning of their algorithmic systems to allow for public accountability.

“Facebook has to report the profit and loss but no one actually gets to see how Facebook is functioning”

Social media platforms and AI developers are failing to address accountability, specifically when they manipulate algorithms to propagate biased or harmful narratives.

“The machine is doing a cry for help. Dude, this is what happens when you create blackbox technology. It's literally impossible to correctly make changes like this because you don't actually know how the AI generates the result.”

The legal theory framing social media companies as liable for product design could potentially open the floodgates to many more lawsuits.

“So then it's a faulty product. So then that's where the liability can come in and then that can open the floodgates. So actually Kathy, that would be my question. Does this open the floodgates?”

Meta and Google should not be liable for platform design decisions under the First Amendment and Section 230.

“The whole principle of could Meta and uh Google be liable for how they designed their platforms. The answer has to be no. It has to be no. Um on a because of the first”