PACT Film Screening and Discussion of "The Social Dilemma"

On Thursday, June 5th from 5:30-7:30pm in the East Room at the San Geronimo Valley Community Center, PACT (Parent’s Alliance for Conscious Tech) presents a film screening and discussion of "The Social Dilemma". This is a FREE Event and CHILDCARE is available at Zoilas.

The Social Dilemma covers the psychological underpinnings and manipulation techniques by which, it claims, social media and technology companies addict users. People's online activity is watched, tracked, and measured by these companies, who then use this data to build artificial intelligence models that predict the actions of their users. Tristan Harris, former Google design ethicist and cofounder of the Center for Humane Technology, explains in the documentary that there are three main goals of tech companies.

Harris summed this up with the warning: "If you're not paying for the product, you are the product", paraphrasing earlier insights from Television Delivers People, Tom Johnson, and Andrew Lewis."