For whatever reason, I have never separated the technical from the ethical.

We don't let a car company just throw out a car and start driving it around without checking that the wheels are fastened on. We know that would result in death; but for some reason we have no hesitation at throwing out some algorithms untested and unmonitored even when they're making very important life-and-death decisions.

My fantasy is that there is a new regulatory body that is in charge of algorithmic auditing.

The NSA buys data from private companies, so the private companies are the source of all this stuff.

The national conversation around white entitlement, around institutionalized racism, the Black Lives Matter movement, I think, came about in large part because of the widening and broadening of our understanding of inequality. That conversation was begun by Occupy.

People felt like they were friends with Google, and they believed in the "Do No Evil" thing that Google said. They trusted Google more than they trusted the government, and I never understood that.

The disconnect I was experiencing was that people hated Wall Street, but they loved tech.