Books by Christopher Wylie
“I really liked this book. I wanted to choose a book about privacy. I think privacy is possibly the most concerning challenge we have with digital technologies. Privacy can be tricky because it can feel very abstract. It doesn’t feel like anything to have your data collected. It seems innocent and painless. The consequences are not always tangible or sometimes very far off in the future. This book is great because it’s written by Christopher Wylie, who was the whistleblower who exposed Cambridge Analytica. He tells the story of exactly how Cambridge Analytica got the idea to use personal data to try to sway elections and how he became part of this. He was the data analyst who made it happen, and he writes about how they built the tool and what exactly that tool could do. The book makes something very abstract and difficult to understand very tangible.” Read more...
The best books on Digital Ethics
Carissa Véliz, Philosopher
Interviews where books by Christopher Wylie were recommended
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Zed: A Novel
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
by Cathy O'Neil -
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Mindf*ck: Inside Cambridge Analytica’s Plot to Break the World
by Christopher Wylie -
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Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
by Safiya Umoja Noble -
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AI Ethics
by Mark Coeckelbergh
The best books on Digital Ethics, recommended by Carissa Véliz
The best books on Digital Ethics, recommended by Carissa Véliz
Philosophers have a lot to add to debates about digital technology and the moral issues raised by its rapid rise, argues Carissa Véliz, a professor at the University of Oxford’s Institute for Ethics in AI. Here she talks us through books for the general reader that introduce some of the challenges of digital ethics, from concerns about privacy and bias to the threat to democracy and the future of humanity.
