Season 3 Trailer: Unbreak the Internet

Crazy/Genius

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Business, Society & Culture, Technology

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2019

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Ten years ago, “Move fast and break things” was the clarion call of the world’s tech giants. Well, they moved fast and broke stuff, alright. Lots of stuff. Whether it’s Facebook privacy scandals, YouTube’s radicalization of the far right, or China’s brutal use of surveillance gadgetry, digital technology seems to be a relentless force for greed, bad faith, and tyranny these days. Let’s talk about it. “Unbreak the Internet” is the theme for the third season of Crazy/Genius, The Atlantic’s podcast on tech and culture. Over the course of eight weeks, we’ll expose the surveillance states in both western China and East New York, ask if digital platforms are an accelerant for right-wing nationalism, tell you why privacy is the climate-change crisis of the internet, and more. The third season of Crazy/Genius returns on May 9. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Every two or three weeks I'll search for cats eating pizza and I see how long it
0:06.7	takes before I'm served some kind of far-right content.
0:09.7	I'm Derek Thompson and in this season of Crazy Genius we're asking a simple question.
0:16.0	How did the internet get so broken?
0:19.0	You have an idea, they have an idea, your idea is more extremist, your idea wins. Well that's by design
0:24.7	There's a business model for dividing us. We have a societal problem of automation bias by default
0:30.7	We just assume because something is database-based or because something is technical,
0:34.7	it's therefore more objective.
0:36.1	Porn is just entertainment, just like Harry Potter.
0:38.9	You're not looking at a documentary, dude.
0:40.9	What are we in this equation? We are the carcass that has left behind after it's been
0:46.4	stripped of whatever is valuable. Wait, there's a tool that actually gets to help decide
0:50.5	whether you're put into jail or prison?
0:53.4	How do you hold an AI accountable
0:55.7	if it makes mistakes?
0:57.1	You don't.
0:58.4	Doesn't that piss you off?
1:00.8	It does piss me off.
1:02.0	We had this idea that Twitter was going to bring democracy to the Middle East,
1:07.0	but soon the authoritarian figured out how to use it as well.
1:10.0	This is now a police state.
1:12.0	There are cameras every corner of the city.
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