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Shoshana Zuboff (Harvard)
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Zuboff's surveillance capitalism framework is influential in AI governance debates, particularly regarding data rights, corporate AI power, and democratic risks—relevant background for understanding societal-scale AI harms beyond direct technical safety concerns.
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Homepage of Harvard professor Shoshana Zuboff, originator of the 'surveillance capitalism' framework, which analyzes how tech companies extract behavioral data to predict and modify human behavior for profit. Her work examines how AI-driven data extraction undermines autonomy, democracy, and human agency at scale.
Key Points
- •Coined 'surveillance capitalism' to describe the commodification of personal behavioral data by tech platforms as a new economic logic
- •Argues that AI systems enable unprecedented behavioral modification and prediction, constituting a threat to human autonomy and democratic self-determination
- •Links corporate data extraction practices to broader political risks, including erosion of epistemic sovereignty and democratic institutions
- •Work bridges AI governance, political economy, and ethics, influencing both policy debates and academic discourse on tech regulation
- •Featured extensively in mainstream media (NYT) and academic journals, making her framework widely accessible
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