Summary of Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, and Jeremy Weinstein's System Error

The preoccupation with efficiency and optimization in big tech companies has come at the expense of core human values.

System Error (2021) lays forth actions that may be taken to alter the future, rebuild our democracy, and save humanity. Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, and Jeremy M. Weinstein uncover the source of our present predicament: how big tech's obsessive drive for efficiency promotes prejudice, diminishes anonymity, displaces employees, and contaminates information. With big tech's dominance becoming a societal problem, they provide startling ideas and real answers to help everyone grasp what is occurring, what is at risk, and what can be done to manage technology rather than allowing it to rule humankind.