The Politics of Captions with Louise Hickman
In this episode we chat to Louise Hickman, an activist and scholar based at the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge. Louise talks to us about stenography, the p...
25 Apr 202329min
Science Fiction in Translation with Regina Kanyu Wang and Emily Jin
In this episode we discuss the new generation of Chinese science fiction with two of the genre's most brilliant translators, editors, writers and researchers. They both played a key role in The Way Sp...
11 Apr 202327min
AI Policy Between the UK and Africa with Bridget Boakye
In this episode we talk to Bridget Boakye, the artificial intelligence (AI) policy leader at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. Bridget is an expert in how AI is impacting Africa and the majo...
28 Mar 202330min
Voice Recognition Technologies and Border Control with Pedro Oliviera
In this episode we talk to Pedro Oliveira, a researcher and sound artist based at the Akademie der Kunste in Berlin. Pedro does amazing work investigating border control technologies that listen to a...
14 Mar 202331min
Big Tech's Colonial Takeover with Michael Kwet
We all know about Microsoft Excel and Outlook, but did you know about the kinds of tech they develop in and sell to the Global South? These include escape management system for jails, police cars inbu...
21 Feb 202327min
Changing Computing Cultures with Abeba Birhane
In this episode we speak to Abeba Birhane, senior research fellow at Mozilla, about how cognition extends beyond the brain, why why we need to turn questions like ‘why aren't there enough black women ...
24 Jan 202334min
Queer Approaches to AI and Computing with Arjun Subramonian
In this episode we talk to Arjun Subramonian, a Computer Science PhD student at UCLA conducting machine learning research and a member of the grassroots organisation Queer in AI. In this episode we di...
10 Jan 202335min
Creating Just Language Technologies with Su Lin Blodgett
In this episode we chat to Su Lin Blodgett, a researcher at Microsoft Research in Montreal, on whether you can use AI to measure discrimination, why AI can never be de-biased, and how AI shows us that...
27 Des 202232min
