Clare Morell

Clare Morell is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and director of its Technology and Human Flourishing Project, and the author of the forthcoming The Tech Exit: A Practical Guide to Freeing Kids and Teens from Smartphones (Forum Books, 2025).

In The New Atlantis

Essay | January 27, 2025

Stop Hacking Humans

From cradle to grave, surrogacy to smartphones to gender surgery to euthanasia, Americans are using technology to shortcut human nature — and shortchange ourselves. Here is a new agenda for turning technology away from hacking humans and toward healing them.