media & resource libary

You can find books, podcasts, movies, documentaries, articles and references discussing current issues related ethical technology. Our curated selection of resources focus on understanding the issues and the ways forward that move towards a more humane and responsible technology ecosystem.

Report Report

Improving Social Media

It is time for greater action toward improving social media. This report, Improving Social Media: The People, Organizations and Ideas for a Better Tech Future is directed at policymakers and social media platforms with the express purpose of creating a more holistic, collective approach to improving social media.

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Responsible Tech Handbook

Get ready to discover a vibrant and diverse community that is deeply committed to building a better tech future.The Responsible Tech Guide, the flagship resource for our non-profit, is structured to allow you to quickly learn about the people, organizations, and ideas of the growing movement.

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Course Course

Foundations for Humane Tech

To build technology that matters tomorrow, we have to start with different principles today. This self-paced online course prepares product teams to create technology that treats attention and intention as sacred, protects well-being, and builds our collective capacity to address humanity’s most urgent challenges.

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Youth Toolkits

Our social media environment is broken. Want a roadmap to help fix it? Integrating expertise across technology, mindfulness, and educational instruction, this interactive toolkit helps young people navigate — and push to change — a broken social media environment.

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Policymakers Toolkits

As a society, we’ve normalized digital lawlessness in the name of innovation and disruption. We need guardrails that protect the conditions that democracy needs to thrive: a comprehensively educated public, a citizenry that can check the power of market forces and bind predatory behavior.

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Parents and Educators Toolkit

For school districts, educators, mental health advocates, young people, and other leaders alike, the Centre for Humane Technology’s Youth & Educators Toolkit helps high school and college students navigate — and push to change — a broken social media environment.

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Film & TV Film & TV

The Social Dilemma

Technology’s promise to keep us connected has given rise to a host of unintended consequences that are catching up with us. If we can’t address our broken information ecosystem, we’ll never be able to address the challenges that plague humanity.

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The Great Hack

Explore how a data company named Cambridge Analytica came to symbolize the dark side of social media in the wake of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

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Internet for the People

The internet is broken because it is owned by private firms and run for profit. Google annihilates your privacy and Facebook amplifies right-wing propaganda because it is profitable to do so. But the internet wasn't always like this. Tarnoff tells the story of the privatization that made the modern internet, and which set in motion the crises that consume it today.

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Coded Bias

CODED BIAS explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.

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Atlas of AI

In Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence Crawford reveals how the global networks underpinning AI technology are damaging the environment, entrenching inequality, and fuelling a shift toward undemocratic governance.

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