a few things programmers should know about society to understand big tech, social media, and AI
- Introduction
- A Little Psychology
- How We Got Here
- A Little More Psychology
- When the Model Is the Harm
- Privacy, Power, and the Self
- Who Gets What and Why
- More Analogies
- Control and Alternatives
- What We Owe the Future
- Regulation That Worked
- When the Algorithm Comes for You
- How Change Happens
- Conclusion
Greg Wilson is a programmer, author, and educator based in Toronto. He was the co-founder and first Executive Director of Software Carpentry and received ACM SIGSOFT's Influential Educator Award in 2020.
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