Ravi Iyer

David Sullivan, Founding Executive Director of the Digital Trust & Safety Partnership, and Ravi Iyer, Managing Director at USC’s Psychology of Technology Institute, delve into the evolving landscape of Trust and Safety in the digital realm. They discuss the need for user-centered regulations, the role of AI in moderation, and the importance of design over top-down policies. The duo explores how AI companions differ from social media in purpose and agency, and what best practices can be applied to ensure safer digital experiences, particularly for vulnerable users like teens.

On the latest episode of Arbiters of Truth, Lawfare's series on the information ecosystem, Quinta Jurecic and Alan Rozenshtein spoke with Ravi Iyer, the Managing Director of the Psychology of Technology Institute at the University of Southern California's Neely Center.Earlier in his career, Ravi held a number of positions at Meta, where he worked to make Facebook's algorithm provide actual value, not just "engagement," to users. Quinta and Alan spoke with Ravi about why he thinks that content moderation is a dead-end and why thinking about the design of technology is the way forward to make sure that technology serves us and not the other way around.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.