Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami and Jeremy M. Weinstein

Reich directs Stanford University's Center for Ethics in Society and is associate director of its new Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Sahami is a computer science professor at Stanford and helped redesign the undergraduate computer science curriculum. Weinstein launched President Obama's Open Government Partnership and returned to Stanford in 2015 as a professor of political science, where he now leads Stanford Impact Labs.

Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami and Jeremy M. Weinstein

Silicon Valley's Optimization Mindset Sets Us Up for Failure

In 2013 a Silicon Valley software engineer decided that food is an inconvenience—a pain point in a busy life. Buying food, preparing it, and cleaning up afterwards struck him as an inefficient way to feed...