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‘System Error’ Warns Against the Dark Side of ‘Optimization’

Even before the release of https://www.protocol.com/facebook-papers three Stanford professors offered their own reform suggestions for big tech. In September philosopher https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-reich-8555738/, computer scientist https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehransahami/, and political scientist https://politicalscience.stanford.edu/people/jeremy-weinstein released a new book titled https://politicalscience.stanford.edu/publications/system-error-where-big-tech-went-wrong-and-how-we-can-reboot

Stanford political science professor Rob Reich asked “probing and uncomfortable questions” of technologists in “System Error.”

It’s not just a Stanford problem, they write, citing optimistic tech headlines betraying “a naive optimism we have worked hard to counter in our students.”

Stanford Professor George Dantzig with President Gerald Ford at the National Medal of Science ceremony in 1976.