“Technology and public purpose is the issue of our time.” “Has this been, in a sense, a growing up moment for Snap?” “To say the least.” “There will be a day in the future when this technology will help American soldiers rescue hostages.” “I deserve the right to know that I am not contributing to weapon systems that, as perhaps a non-US citizen, would harm my family.” “The goal is to inject a little bit of empathy and emotional intelligence into our machines and digital experiences.” “Do we think we can design a world that looks different, a world that is food secure, a world that is more sustainable? Yes, we can.” “A society that is designed to pay a large number of people for not working is going to be a very unhappy society.” “These companies have also created like intensely secretive, insular, almost cult-like — “ “Correct.” “ — cultures.” “I’ve actually spent years going into cults to study how they operate. And the parallels are really pretty crazy.” “Yeah, like [inaudible].” “In cults, they call it a love bomb. So when you enter, they basically give you so much love, you feel so welcome and so supported, and it’s like the family you never had that now, you don’t want to leave.” “We can’t have a productive conversation where we talk about the nuance in all this. I think we’ll be in a bad place.” “They know how to teach a machine to do something new. Then the question is, have they been able to apply that in a way that is going to be profitable for them?” “In this new world of technology innovation, we are all immigrants, right? We are not immigrants physically in this new geography. But in this conceptual world, we are immigrants. Let’s take on that mentality.”