How technology can fight extremism and online harassment | Yasmin Green

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🗓️ 28 August 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Can technology make people safer from threats like violent extremism, censorship and persecution? In this illuminating talk, technologist Yasmin Green details programs pioneered at Jigsaw (a unit within Alphabet Inc., the collection of companies that also includes Google) to counter radicalization and online harassment -- including a project that could give commenters real-time feedback about how their words might land, which has already increased spaces for dialogue. "If we ever thought that we could build an internet insulated from the dark side of humanity, we were wrong," Green says. "We have to throw our entire selves into building solutions that are as human as the problems they aim to solve."

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0:00.0	You're listening to a special archive presentation of TED Talks daily. This TED Talk features
0:06.6	geopolitical technologist Yasmin Green, recorded live at TED 2018. My relationship with the internet
0:17.0	reminds me of the setup to a cliched horror movie.
0:21.9	You know, the blissfully happy family moves into their perfect new home,
0:26.3	excited about their perfect future,
0:28.3	and it's sunny outside, and the birds are chirping.
0:32.3	And then it gets dark, and there are noises from the attic,
0:37.0	and we realize that that perfect new house
0:39.3	isn't so perfect.
0:42.0	When I started working at Google in 2006, Facebook was just a two-year-old, and Twitter hadn't
0:48.1	yet been born.
0:49.7	And I was in absolute awe of the Internet, and all of its promise to make us closer and smarter
0:56.3	and more free.
0:58.8	But as we were doing the inspiring work of building search engines and video sharing sites
1:04.3	and social networks, criminals, dictators and terrorists were figuring out how to use those same platforms against us.
1:15.1	And we didn't have the foresight to stop them.
1:18.4	Over the last few years, geopolitical forces have come online to wreak havoc.
1:23.9	And in response, Google supported a few colleagues in me to set up a new group called Jigsaw,
1:29.6	with a mandate to make people safer from threats like violent extremism, censorship, persecution.
1:37.0	Threats that feel very personal to me because I was born in Iran and I left in the aftermath of a violent revolution.
1:45.1	But I'd come to realize that even if we had all of the resources
1:49.7	of all of the technology companies in the world,
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