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
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 Jun 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 Jun 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 Mai 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 Mai 202223min
