James Williams\u2019 work sits at the intersection of philosophy, ethics, and technology. A research associate at Oxford\u2019s Internet Institute, he worked for 10 years at Google, where he received the company\u2019s highest honor, the Founder\u2019s Award, for his work on search advertising. He is particularly interested in advancing freedom of thought and wellbeing in environments of highly persuasive design, and authored a new book on this topic, Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"