Former Google scientist says the computers that run our lives exploit us -- and he has a way to stop them

He comes with an army of names. Hume Initiative, the nonprofit, has convened an ethics committee with many heavy-hitters in the field of emotional and ethical AI, including the founder of Google's human-centered Empathy Lab, Danielle Krettek Cobb; the "algorithmic fairness" expert Karthik Dinakar; and Dacher Keltner, the University of California at Berkeley professor who was Cowen's graduate school mentor and advised Pixar on the emotions in "Inside Out."