person
Rob Reich
Stanford professor; System Error co-author
Stanford political theory professor and associate director of HAI. Co-author of System Error (2021), which argues Big Tech's optimization mindset systematically substitutes company values for democratic ones.
current Professor of Political Science, Stanford University; Associate Director, Stanford HAI
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Governance firstendorses
Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimesArgues tech firms' optimization mindset is a democratic problem and calls for a professional code of responsible conduct for AI developers.
“Well-intentioned optimizers fail to measure all that is meaningful and, when their creative disruptions achieve great scale, they impose their values upon the rest of us.”
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.