PACT Film Screening and Discussion of "The Social Dilemma"

On Thursday, June 5th from 5:00-7:30pm in the East Room at the San Geronimo Valley Community Center, PACT (Parent’s Alliance for Conscious Tech) presents a film screening of "The Social Dilemma" and a post screening agreements workshop. 5-6:30 pm -Screening / 6:30-7:30 pm - Agreements Workshop

This is a FREE Event. CHILDCARE is available at The Community Center. Pizza will be available, please select dinner in RSVP checkout if you want to be included in order.

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."

ABOUT PACT - www.pactaction.org

PACT (Parent's Alliance for Conscious Tech) is a West Marin-based movement of parents working together to support healthier relationships with digital media. We believe our kids deserve more play, more IRL connection, and more freedom to be kids - and that can only be accomplished through a community-coordinated effort.

PACT strives to provide clear language and protocols to facilitate a conversation that considers everyone's needs. As a community, we are only as strong as the weakest of our links.