Oxford ethicist Carissa Véliz on the Meta lawsuit and AI prediction ethics
CarissaVeliz · x · 2026-09-14
The Spanish-language podcast El hilo interviews Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI professor Carissa Véliz on the era-defining ethics of AI prediction.
- In late August Meta faced the largest big-tech lawsuit in US history: attorneys general from nearly every state accused it of designing products to addict millions of minors, misuse private data, and harm mental health; it ended in an out-of-court settlement
- Véliz argues the surveillance machinery of big platforms now feeds a prediction machine that lets a handful of executives choose our futures
- She contends predictions causing harm should have consequences for the prophets, calling prediction the most important ethical problem of our time
- 46-minute episode with English transcription available
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