Unexpected History of Computing with Mar Hicks
In this episode, we talk to Mar Hicks, an Associate Professor of Data Science at the University of Virginia and author of Programmed Inequality: How Britain discarded Women Technologists and Lost its ...
15 Elo 202333min
Hot Take: Twitter is to X as Barbie is to Ken
Welcome to this week’s Hot Take, where your hosts Kerry and Eleanor give their candid opinion on the latest in tech news. This week they discuss the rebranding of Twitter as X and how people like Elon...
1 Elo 202323min
Buddhist Approaches to Machine Consciousness with Peter Hershock
We talk to Peter Hershock, director of the Asian Studies Development Program and coordinator of the Humane AI Initiative at the East-West Center in Honolulu. We talked to Peter about the kinds of misc...
18 Heinä 202342min
Hot Take: Detecting Sexuality with AI is Fake Science
In this week’s Good Robot Hot Takes, Kerry and Eleanor talk about a group of scientists in Zurich that tried to measure a correlation between brain activity and sexuality using AI. This smacks not onl...
11 Heinä 202335min
Worker Surveillance and the US Trucking Industry with Karen Levy
In this episode we chat to Karen Levy, Associate Professor of Information Science at Cornell University and author of Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance. Karen is an...
4 Heinä 202329min
Hot Take: Can AI De-Bias Hiring?
Welcome to our third episode of the Good Robot Hot Takes. Every two weeks Kerry and Eleanor will be giving their hot take on some of the biggest issues in tech. If you’re a graduate or a jobseeker, th...
27 Kesä 202334min
Art, Digital Archives and Activism with Ofri Cnaani
In this episode we chat with Ofri Cnaani, an artist and associate lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. Artists are doing amazing things in tech spaces, not just working with tech but also usi...
20 Kesä 202329min
Hot Take: Most AI Scientists in Films Suck
Welcome to our second episode of the Good Robot Hot Takes, where every week Kerry and Eleanor give you their spicy opinions about top issues in tech. This week we talk about science fiction films, why...
13 Kesä 202327min
