As a technologist, how do I go about helping build capacity for government? That's such a great and interesting question. We need some of these really bright technology minds to work in government. Government does not want to stifle innovation. Government wants Silicon Valley to help the United States be the most thriving country we can be. Guillaume Chaslow: There needs to be accountability at the leadership level.
Aza sits down with Yael Eisenstat, a former CIA officer and a former advisor at the White House. When Yael noticed that Americans were having a harder and harder time finding common ground, she shifted her work from counter-extremism abroad to advising technology companies in the U.S. She believed as danger at home increased, her public sector experience could help fill a gap in Silicon Valley’s talent pool and chip away at the ways tech was contributing to polarization and election hacking. But when she joined Facebook in June 2018, things didn’t go as planned. Yael shares the lessons she learned and her perspective on government’s role in regulating tech, and Aza and Tristan raise questions about our relationships with these companies and the balance of power.