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Ravi Iyer

Managing Director, USC Marshall School Neely Center

Ravi Iyer is the Managing Director of the University of Southern California Marshall School’s Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision-Making. He advises the authors of The Anxious Generation, the Minnesota Attorney General’s office, and the United Kingdom’s telecommunications regulator Ofcom on improving the societal impact of technology. Previously, he spent many years leading data science, research, and product teams across Meta toward improving the societal impact of social media. He received his PhD in social psychology from the University of Southern California, co-founded Ranker, and continues to work at the intersection of academia, civil society, and the technology industry.

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Better Feeds: Algorithms That Put People First

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Better Feeds: Algorithms That Put People First

As state, federal, and global policymakers grapple with how to address concerns about the link between online algorithms and a variety of harms, KGI’s latest report authored by a distinguished group of researchers, technologists, and policy leaders is a roadmap for design and governance solutions that put users first. Product designers and policymakers can promote better algorithms through detailed design transparency, user choices and defaults, and assessments of long-term impact.

Alex Moehring, Alissa Cooper, Arvind Narayanan, Aviv Ovadya, Elissa Redmiles, Jeff Allen, Jonathan Stray, Julia Kamin, Leif Sigerson, Luke Thorburn, Matt Motyl, Motahhare Eslami, Nadine Farid Johnson, Nathaniel Lubin, Ravi Iyer, Zander Arnao

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