Data Activism Against Everyday Racism with Mónica Moreno Figueroa and Ella McPherson
In this episode we speak to two brilliant professors here at Cambridge, Mónica Moreno Figueroa and Ella McPherson about a data project they launched at the University of Cambridge to track everyday ra...
18 Okt 202237min
Why Machine Learning is Political with Louise Amoore
In this episode, we talk to Louise Amoore, professor of political geography at Durham and expert in how machine learning algorithms are transforming the ethics and politics of contemporary society. Lo...
4 Okt 202240min
Reproductive Technologies and Feminist Research Ethics with Sarah Franklin
In this episode we talk to Sarah Franklin, a leading figure in feminist science studies and the sociology of reproduction. In this tour de force of IVF ethics and feminism through the ages, Sarah disc...
20 Sep 202238min
Anti-Asian Racism across Time and Space with Michelle N. Huang
In this episode we chat to Michelle N. Huang, Assistant Professor of English and Asian American literature at Northwestern University. Chatting with Michelle is bittersweet, as we think collectively t...
6 Sep 202233min
Understanding Tech Ethics from the Ground Up with Sareeta Amrute
In this episode we talk to Sareeta Amrute, Affiliate Associate Professor at the University of Washington who studies race, labour, and class in global tech economies. Sareeta discusses happened when R...
23 Aug 202236min
Techno-Feminisms and Why Nature is Far Stranger Than We Think with Sophie Lewis
In this episode Sophie, author of Full Surrogacy Now and self-defined wayward Marxist, talks about defining good technology for the whole of the biosphere, why the purity of the human species has alwa...
3 Aug 202234min
AI Colonialism and Changing the Stories We Tell About Tech with Karen Hao
In this episode we chat to Karen Hao, a prominent tech journalist who focuses on the intersections of AI, data, politics and society. Right now she’s based in Hong Kong as a reporter for the Wall Stre...
26 Jul 202230min
Large Language Models and Misogyny in Tech with Margaret Mitchell
In the race to produce the biggest language model yet, Google has now overtaken Open AI’s GPT-3 and Microsoft’s T-NLG with a 1.6 trillion parameter model. In 2021, Meg Mitchell was fired from Google, ...
12 Jul 202234min
