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Companies and developers must be subject to strict oversight, liability, and ethical standards to prevent harm to users and society.
9 people · 9 episodes
Tristan Harris believes that software developers must be subject to liability laws and regulation to prevent the exploitation of human psychology.
“What is the lesson we learned from social media that if the companies aren't responsible for the harms that show up on their platform because we had this section 230 free pass that created this blank check to just go print money on all the harms that are currently getting generated?”
The Prof G Pod · Dec 2025 · 1 episode · 135K views on this topicEngineers and technologists must remain alert and accountable for the unintended consequences of their products even after they have been released.
“we design with our eyes open and then after we deploy something we keep our eyes open and we hold ourselves accountable for what happens as people take up these Technologies and use them so the design process goes longer than oh I had my big release the design process follows it out”
StarTalk · Dec 2024 · 1 episode · 317K views on this topicPrivacy should be redefined as the right to be free from manipulative algorithms that predict and attempt to influence human behavior.
“what it really has to become is a prohibition a prohibition on prediction of human behavior.”
StarTalk · May 2026 · 1 episode · 877K views on this topicThere is a severe lack of alignment between the development of AI and human interests because incentives currently favor rapid progress over safety.
“Incentives are completely misaligned. We have no incentives which are prohumity. All the incentives are to develop this.”
Triggernometry · Apr 2026 · 1 episode · 450K views on this topicTech companies have a moral responsibility to design technology that is wise and promotes human health rather than just optimizing for productivity.
“when you try to come back to these deeper ideals that you know technology deeply shapes us and therefore you know we have a moral responsibility to make it in a way that's actually wise”
Danny Jones · Dec 2024 · 1 episode · 213K views on this topicHumanity has a moral duty to preserve digital legacies and protect historical or environmental sites from degradation or exploitation.
3 people · 2 episodes
Luke contends that if a company shuts down servers for an online-only game, they have a responsibility to release the source code so the community can maintain the game.
“or you should have to as we've said so many times you should have to release the side code yeah at the very least and if nobody picks it up all right so be it so be it but if you advertise the feature then I think there needs to be legislation in place”
Linus Tech Tips · Dec 2022 · 9 episodes · 6.4M views on this topicHannah advocates for the preservation of historic sites on the moon and other celestial bodies for future generations.
“I guess I just really love the the historicalness of it. Um in fact, there are only four archaeological sites that do not lie within the boundaries of a nation.”
The Rest Is Science · Jun 2026 · 1 episode · 428K views on this topicMichael believes there should be established interplanetary parks on places like the moon to preserve them as they were before human activity.
“What about building a park on Mars that preserves its surface and atmosphere as it was before we changed it? Like I want the preservation of these places. The moon can become this big metropolis, but there should be large interstellar or inner inner planetary parks.”
The Rest Is Science · Jun 2026 · 1 episode · 428K views on this topicCompanies should not exercise unilateral power over users through hardware control, data silos, or exploitative labor practices.
3 people · 3 episodes
It is ethically problematic for companies to restrict ownership rights by reserving the power to remotely disable consumer hardware.
“You 1,000% do not own the Nintendo console you buy anymore, which would be fine. It would be more fine if we were still in the era of like carts that actually had all the game data on them and that actually worked completely without Nintendo's online services”
Linus Tech Tips · May 2025 · 9 episodes · 6.4M views on this topicEthan Klein argues that companies creating these robots are essentially finding ways to capitalize on virtual slave labor by using low-wage remote workers to perform tasks.
“They just try They like found a way to like capitalize on like slavery.”
H3 Podcast · Nov 2025 · 1 episode · 218K views on this topicTech platforms should not be allowed to keep user data within closed silos and should be required to allow data portability.
“one of the things that I think people have thought about doing in is legislating that you must be able to move your data between different ones.”
The Rest Is Politics: Leading · Sep 2025 · 1 episode · 80K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
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