📖 Should We End the Data Economy?

A transcript of my conversation with Dr Carissa Véliz, Associate Professor at Oxford University’s Institute for Ethics in AI.

This is a transcript of my conversation with Dr Carissa Véliz, Associate Professor at Oxford University’s Institute for Ethics in AI. Listen to the full conversation on your platform of choice or on our podcast page. The transcript is open to members only.

These days we're well aware that our personal data is worth a lot. The biggest technology companies, like Google and Facebook, have become multi-billion dollar juggernauts by hoovering up this data and using it to sell personalized advertising. There’s an old saying that if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product. I’ve explored many of these issues in Exponential View over the past five years, so I do recommend you jump over to exponentialview.co and take a look. The question is, what should we do about it? It’s one thing to articulate the problem of the use or abuse of our personal data, it’s another to suggest how we move forward. 

My guest today, Dr. Carissa Véliz, Associate Professor at the Institute for Ethics in A…