Greg M. Epstein
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A truly inclusive vision of America recognizes the nonreligious, too
Amid rising Christian nationalism, President Biden should reach out directly to the “nones.” → Read More
Half the reason for college is missing now
It’s the most underappreciated problem facing education this fall: the absence of non-academic student activities that give rise to new connections and ideas. → Read More
Is tech socialism really on the rise? –
Ultimately, it's a question of human dignity. To what degree are people given the opportunity to realize their potential, to create themselves? → Read More
‘Capitalism generates a lot of wealth depending on the situation’ –
When you think about how a technology is designed, whether in Facebook or, let's say, with industrial automation robots, engineers are not talking to the workers for obvious reasons. → Read More
Justin Kan opens up (Part 2) –
"I like to talk about things that I'm learning that I think are applicable to other people." → Read More
Justin Kan opens up (Part 1) –
In a free-wheeling interview, the serial entrepreneur covers a number of topics, including spirituality, stress and therapy. → Read More
Will the future of work be ethical? Founder perspectives –
Andrea Thomasz of Diligent Robotics and Prayag Narula of LeadGenius spoke to Greg Epstein at EmTech Next, a conference organized by the MIT Technology Review. → Read More
Will the future of work be ethical? Future leader perspectives –
In this interview, Greg Epstein talks to Meili Gupta, a senior at Phillips Exeter Academy, and Walter Erike, an independent consultant and SAP Implementation Senior Manager. → Read More
Will the future of work be ethical? Perspectives from MIT Technology Review –
Excerpts from conversations with Gideon Lichfield, editor in chief of the MIT Technology Review, and Karen Hao, its artificial intelligence reporter. → Read More
Will the future of work be ethical? Academic perspectives –
Greg Epstein interviews economist David Autor and Susan Winterberg, an academic who studies business and ethics. → Read More
Will the future of work be ethical? –
Will tomorrow’s leaders, despite good and ethical intentions, ultimately use their high-tech tools to exploit others ever more efficiently, or to find a better path forward? → Read More
“People fix things. Tech doesn’t fix things.” –
Veena Dubal is an unlikely star in the tech world. A scholar of labor practices regarding the taxi and ride-hailing industries and an Associate Professor at San Francisco’s U.C. Hastings College of the Law, her work on the ethics of the gig economy has been covered by the New York Times, NBC News, New York […] → Read More
Silicon Valley’s competing philosophies on tech ethics with The New Yorker’s Andrew Marantz –
“If Silicon Valley is going to keep telling itself the story that the only uses of their technology will be the most optimistic, the most hopeful, the most salubrious, the most prosocial,” New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz told me in Part 1 of this recent conversation for Extra Crunch, “you can try to rebut […] → Read More
How ‘the Internet broke America’ with The New Yorker’s Andrew Marantz –
When Elizabeth Warren took on Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook earlier this week, it was a low moment for what New Yorker writer Andrew Marantz calls “techno-utopianism.” That the progressive, populist Massachusetts Senator and leading Democratic Presidential candidate wants to #BreakUpBigTech is not s… → Read More
TC’s Greg Epstein and Kate Clark talk mental health startups and the ‘Cult of the Founder’ –
Some weeks, tech ethics is in the news. And some weeks, it IS the news. This week was one of the latter, There were so many ethically fraught news stories about technology companies over these past few days, I had trouble keeping track of them all. So I’m delighted that my latest interviewee for this […] → Read More
“Am I as brave as I think I am?” MIT Media Lab student Arwa Mboya on the aftermath of a scandal –
It’s been another hard week at MIT. Our campus has been divided by revelations of inappropriate fundraising, coverups, and the harboring of far too many tech geniuses who seemingly put their own interests and careers over the safety of women, among other marginalized groups. As a chaplain to students and faculty at the Institute, but […] → Read More
The MIT Media Lab controversy and getting back to ‘radical courage’, with Media Lab student Arwa Mboya –
People win prestigious prizes in tech all the time, but there is something different about The Bold Prize. Unless you’ve been living under a literal or proverbial rock, you’ve probably heard something about the late Jeffrey Epstein, a notorious child molester and human trafficker who also happened to be a billionaire philanthropist and managed to […] → Read More
Teaching ethics in computer science the right way with Georgia Tech’s Charles Isbell –
The new fall semester is upon us, and at elite private colleges and universities, it’s hard to find a trendier major than Computer Science. It’s also becoming more common for such institutions to prioritize integrating ethics into their CS studies, so students don’t just learn about how to build software, but whether or not they […] → Read More
Hundreds of Uber and Lyft drivers to launch a protest caravan across California –
If you’re like me, chances are good you just distractedly clicked on this article while scrolling through your feed in, or while waiting for, a Lyft. Maybe, like me, you need that app to get to back-to-back meetings in different locations today, as you’re well on your way to at least a 60-hour workweek between […] → Read More
How ‘ghost work’ in Silicon Valley pressures the workforce, with Mary Gray –
The phrase “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps” was originally meant sarcastically. It’s not actually physically possible to do — especially while wearing Allbirds and having just fallen off a Bird scooter in downtown San Francisco, but I should get to my point. This week, Ken Cuccinelli, the acting Director of the United States […] → Read More