Silicon Valley Has Lost Its Moral Compass (with Anil Dash)

About this episode

Anil Dash discusses the moral decline in Silicon Valley and the implications for ethical technology and AI.

Anil Dash is a pioneering technologist, advocate for ethical tech, and former CEO of Glitch, who currently serves on the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Looking back on his career, he says Silicon Valley has lost its moral compass because it no longer responds to shame. "You stopped being able to say, don't do this thing, it makes you look bad," Anil says. "Facebook never cared about that. And most of the product managers at OpenAI used to work at Facebook.” “If [they] were a person that joined Meta after they enabled the Rohingya genocide and then [they] went to work at OpenAI,” he adds, “And you're like, 'Hey, why does your product tell teenagers to self-harm?' They're going to be like, 'What's the problem?'" Today on Revolution.Social, Anil and Rabble talk about the evolution of the independent web, the challenges of maintaining progressive values within the startup ecosystem, and how to use digital tools to foster a more democratic society. They also explore the backlash against AI, which Anil believes to be a manifestation of all the disruption the tech industry has caused in people's lives, and why that doesn't mean we have to give up on AI entirely. Chapters…

People in this episode

Host: Rabble a.k.a. Evan Henshaw-Plath

Guest: Anil Dash

Topics covered

• ethical technology
• Silicon Valley
• AI ethics
• democratic society
• corporate responsibility
• disruption in tech

Keywords

• Silicon Valley
• moral compass
• AI
• ethical tech
• disruption
• corporate shame
• democracy
• Rohingya genocide

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Glitch, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Facebook, OpenAI

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