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Building Safer Technology: A Field Guide to Failing Well
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Building Safer Technology: A Field Guide to Failing Well

by Yonatan Zunger, Lea Kissner, Neil Coles, Juan Pablo Hernandez, Harmony Mabrey, Phillip Misner
August 2026
Intermediate
320 pages
9h 46m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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About the Authors

Yonatan Zunger spent much of his career at Google, where, after running teams like high-capacity search and planet-scale storage, he ended up as CTO of Social. This meant becoming Google’s “Department of Weird Stuff,” working deeply on problems of security, privacy, abuse, harassment, policy, responsible AI, and more for Google+, News, Blogger, and much more. Later, he worked on things like the Google Assistant and ultimately co-led privacy for the company. After a few years helping build the startup Humu, he spent two years at Twitter as a general “fixer of problems.” Alas, some problems are beyond mortal intervention, which brought him to Microsoft, where his focus today is on figuring out how to make generative AI safe, ...

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ISBN: 9780135589434