The Problems With Persuasion Technology

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In 1998, in an industry conference, the CHI conference, I brought people together and said, here's this new thing that's happening. There's significant potential, but there's also dark sides. In 2006, a subcommittee of Congress in the United States asked me to join this event called TechAid. And so I talked about persuasive tech. The problems that I first saw with technology were three things: collecting data on what persuades individuals; then finding our vulnerabilities and using it against us.

BJ Fogg is a pioneering research psychologist and founder of the iconic Behavior Design Lab at Stanford which has taught everyone from the founders of Instagram to the leading technology ethicist Tristan Harris. In this episode Fogg speaks to Carl Miller about his new book Tiny Habits, how he cracked the code of habit formation and the potential dangers of unleashing behaviour design on the world. See more about the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Sellers-Books/zgbs/books

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