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Powerful tech must engage in societal discourse
Hoffman disagrees with the Silicon Valley meme that technology is the only Archimedean lever that matters and that companies should tell society to leave them alone; as tech reaches society-level impact, companies must deliberately engage in public discourse, accept accountability on design principles, and create channels for society to give feedback.
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Reid HoffmanEvidence Quote
“as those levers become more important to society... we can’t actually, in fact, say, 'We should not be in discourse with society about what we’re doing.'”
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:30:30 AM
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