Big Food, Big Tech and Big AI with Michael Moss

In the next two episodes of Your Undivided Attention, we
take a close look at two respective industries: big food and
social media, which represent dangerous “races to the bottom” and
have big parallels with AI.  


And we are asking: what can our past mistakes and missed
opportunities teach us about how we should approach AI
harms? 


In this first episode, Tristan talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist and author Michael Moss. His book Salt, Sugar, Fat:
How the Food Giants Hooked Us rocked the fast food industry
when it came out in 2014. 


Tristan and Michael discuss how we can leverage the lessons
learned from Big Food’s coordination failures, and whether it’s
the responsibility of the consumer, the government, or the
companies to regulate.
 


RECOMMENDED MEDIA 


Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us


Michael’s New York Times bestseller. You’ll never look at
a nutrition label the same way again


Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our
Addictions


Michael’s Pulitzer Prize-winning exposé of how the processed food
industry exploits our evolutionary instincts, the emotions we
associate with food, and legal loopholes in their pursuit of
profit over public health


Control Your Tech Use


Center for Humane Technology’s recently updated Take Control
Toolkit


RECOMMENDED YUA EPISODES


AI Myths and Misconceptions


The AI Dilemma


How Might a long-term stock market transform tech? (ZigZag
episode)


 


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