Podcast: Oxford's Carissa Véliz on Meta's landmark lawsuit, surveillance and AI prediction
CarissaVeliz · x · 2026-09-16
The Spanish podcast El hilo talks with Carissa Véliz, professor at Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI. Key points:
- In late August, Meta faced the biggest big-tech lawsuit in US history: attorneys general from nearly every state accused it of designing products to addict millions of minors, misusing private data and harming their mental health; it ended in an out-of-court settlement.
- Véliz traces how the surveillance machinery built by major platforms now feeds a prediction machine deciding our future.
- Her core argument: letting AI predict our future effectively lets a handful of entrepreneurs choose it for us, amid unprecedented concentration of tech power.
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