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 Juli 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 Juli 202234min
Machine Enlightenment with Soraj Hongladarom
In this episode, we speak to Soraj Hongladarom, a professor of philosophy and Director of the Center for Science, Technology, and Society at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. Soraj explains what ma...
28 Juni 202223min
Avoiding Universalism and 'Silver Bullets' in Tech Design with Os Keyes
In this episode we chat to Os Keyes, an Ada Lovelace fellow and adjunct professor at Seattle University, and a PhD student at the University of Washington in the department of Human Centered Design & ...
14 Juni 202244min
Vague AI Ethics Principles and why Automatic Gender Recognition is Nonsense with Alex Hanna
In this episode, we talk to Dr Alex Hanna, Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute which was founded and directed by her ex-boss at Google Dr Timnit Gebru. Previously a sociologi...
31 Maj 202237min
Engineers, Values, and Giving the Public a Voice with Virginia Dignum
In this episode we chat to Virginia Dignum, Professor of Responsible Artificial Intelligence at the University of Umeå where she leads the Social and Ethical Artificial Intelligence research group. We...
17 Maj 202223min
Debunking Myths in Technology: Intelligence, Survival, Sexuality with Blaise Agüera y Arcas
In this episode, we talk to Blaise Agüera y Arcas, a Fellow and Vice President at Google research and an authority in computer vision, machine intelligence, and computational photography. In this wide...
3 Maj 202233min
Drone Warfare and Undoing Everyday Militarism with Kate Chandler
In this episode, we talk to Dr. Kate Chandler, Assistant Professor at Georgetown and a specialist on drone warfare. We recorded this interview the day that Russia invaded Ukraine, which reminded us of...
26 Apr 202231min
