Where is the limit in the use of technology to solve societal problems? How can Social Work utilize AI to address social injustice? To answer these questions and more we welcome Dr. Eric Rice to the show. Eric is an associate professor and the founding co-director of the USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society, a joint venture of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Rice received a BA from the University of Chicago, and an MA and ...
Aug 12, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 30
What is AI for Social Good? In this special bonus panel episode on AI for Social Good 101, we interviewed Dr. Anamika Barman-Adhikari, Dr. Fei Fang, and Dr. Amulya Yadav. Anamika Barman-Adhikari is an Associate Professor of social work at the University of Denver. She received her Ph.D. in Social Work from University of Southern California. Fei Fang is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Software Research in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining CMU...
Aug 09, 2020•58 min•Ep. 29
What is IEEE and what is their “ethically aligned design” initiative? How can positive visions for the future help us create better technology? What do kindness and wellbeing have to do with AI Ethics? To answer these questions and more we welcome John C. Havens to the show. John is the current Executive Director of the Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems at The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is a contributing writer for Mashable, The G...
Aug 05, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 28
How can we reduce data discrimination & algorithmic bias that perpetuate gender and racial inequalities? In partnership with All Tech is Human we present this Livestreamed conversation featuring Safiya Noble (Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the Department of Information Studies and author of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism) and Meredith Broussard (Associate Professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New Y...
Jul 29, 2020•49 min•Ep. 27
In what way does technology make us more or less visible to each other? What is Ghost Work and how might it impact the future of work? How can AI Ethicists relate more intimately with compassion? To answer these questions and more we welcome Dr. Mary L. Gray to the show. Dr. Mary L. Gray is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Along with her research, Mary teaches at Indiana University, ma...
Jul 22, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 26
Happy Three Months of the Radical AI Podcast! In this minisode we share the compiled advice given from our guests over our first 18 interviews, celebrate the Radical AI Community, and give thanks for the journey thus far. Thank you so much for your support! As always, show notes can be found on radicalai.org - along with a written blogpost with extended quotes of advice taken from our conversations with our guests.
Jul 19, 2020•28 min•Ep. 25
In this episode we interview the interdisciplinary research team of Calvin Liang, Jevan Hutson, and Os Keyes around the motivation and research behind their paper: "Surveillance, Stigma & Sociotechnical Design for HIV". This paper analyzes the approaches that 49 online dating and hookup platforms have taken when designing for HIV disclosure. Calvin, Jevan, and Os point to bottom-up, communal, and queer approaches for design as a way of potentially making the tension between disclosure and ri...
Jul 15, 2020•53 min•Ep. 24
How can we ensure that our technological systems do not reproduce existing inequalities? In partnership with All Tech is Human we present this Livestreamed conversation featuring Mutale Nkonde (CEO of AI for the People & fellow at the Digital Society Lab at Stanford) & Charlton McIlwain (author of Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, From the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter, as well as Vice Provost for Faculty Engagement and Development at NYU). This conversation is moderated...
Jul 12, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 23
How can Science Fiction be used to get the public involved in the AI Ethics conversation? What are religious studies and how can they relate to AI? Why is it important to distinguish between Science Fiction and Science Fact when it comes to the future of AI? To answer these questions and more we welcome Dr. Beth Singler to the show. Dr. Beth Singler is a Junior Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Cambridge. Previously, Beth was the post-doctoral Research Associate on ...
Jul 08, 2020•51 min•Ep. 22
What are the societal impacts and ethics of Natural Language Processing (or NLP)? How can language be a form of power? How can we effectively teach ethics in the NLP classroom? How can we promote healthy interdisciplinary collaboration in the development of NLP products? To answer these questions and more we welcome Dr. Emily M. Bender to the show. Dr. Emily M. Bender researches linguistics, computational linguistics, and ethical issues in Natural Language Processing. Emily is currently a Profes...
Jul 01, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 21
Sponsored by Ethical Intelligence this bonus episode features a presentation delivered by Renee Cummings as a workshop given on 06/24/20. We also welcome Ethical Intelligence CEO Olivia Gambelin to the show as a guest host. Renée Cummings is a criminologist and international criminal justice consultant who specializes in Artificial Intelligence (AI); ethical AI, bias in AI, diversity and inclusion in AI, algorithmic authenticity and accountability, data integrity and equity, AI for social good a...
Jun 28, 2020•43 min•Ep. 20
What does it mean that IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, and others have distanced themselves from developing facial recognition technology and providing facial recognition data to vendors? Should you be skeptical? Where is the hope? To answer these questions and more we welcome Deb Raji to the show. Deb is a tech fellow at the AI Now Institute Working on critical perspectives to evaluation practice in AI, conducting audits on deployed AI systems and facial recognition, and AI auditing policy. She has wor...
Jun 24, 2020•54 min•Ep. 19
What are the ethics of emoji design and why does it matter? What are some of the ethical concerns we should have about chatbots and virtual assistants? How can these technologies perpetuate racial and gender stereotypes? To answer these questions and more The Radical AI Podcast welcomes Dr. Miriam Sweeney to the show. Dr. Miriam Sweeney is an assistant professor in the School of Library & Information Studies at the University of Alabama. She is a critical cultural digital media scholar who s...
Jun 17, 2020•54 min•Ep. 18
In this Minisode hosts Dylan and Jess reflect on current events, systemic racism in tech and beyond, how to stay connected to the deeply systemic work that is needed to uproot colonialism, and much more. Every month The Radical AI Podcast releases a Minisode reviewing the previous month's episodes and updating listeners on insider news from the Radical AI world. As always we invite you to please subscribe, rate, and leave a review to show your support! Show notes and transcript available at radi...
Jun 14, 2020•27 min•Ep. 17
How can we claim agency over data systems to fight for racial justice? What is Data for Black Lives? How can you join the movement? To answer these questions and more we welcome Yeshi Milner to the show. Yeshi Milner is the co-founder and executive director of Data for Black Lives. Raised in Miami, FL, Yeshi began organizing against the school-to-prison pipeline at Power U Center for Social Change as a high school senior. There she developed a lifelong commitment to movement building as a vehicl...
Jun 10, 2020•46 min•Ep. 16
How do we respond to the racism in the world we have been given? What does it mean to transform technology systems in the spirit of justice and equity? How do we engage with diversity and representation without reducing our efforts to simple branding and lip service? To answer these questions and more the Radical AI Podcast welcomes one of our heroes Dr. Timnit Gebru to the show. Dr. Timnit Gebru is a research scientist at Google on the ethical AI team and a co-founder of Black in AI. Timnit pre...
Jun 03, 2020•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 15
How does your data tell your story? Is historical data political? What do our archives have to do with defining the future of our technology? To answer these questions and more The Radical AI Podcast welcomes Stanford PhD. Student and Archivist Eun Seo Jo to the show. Eun Seo Jo is a PhD student in History at Stanford University. Her research broadly covers applications of machine learning on historical data and the ethical concerns of using socio-cultural data for AI research and systems. Full ...
May 31, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 14
Should we grant robots rights? What is moral relationality and how can it be useful for designing machine learning algorithms? What is the algorithmic colonization of Africa and why is it harmful? To answer these questions and more The Radical AI Podcast welcomes Abeba Birhane to the show. Abeba Birhane is a PhD candidate in cognitive science at University College Dublin in the School of Computer Science. She studies the relationships between emerging technologies, personhood and society. Specif...
May 27, 2020•57 min•Ep. 13
What is the role of journalism in telling the stories of tech ethics? How can journalism bridge the gap between technology and public policy? How do we measure truth in journalism, research and beyond? To answer these questions and more The Radical AI Podcast welcomes Karen Hao to the show. Karen is the artificial intelligence reporter for MIT Technology Review. She covers the ethics and social impacts of technology as well as its applications for social good. Karen also writes the AI newsletter...
May 20, 2020•33 min•Ep. 12
In this Minisode hosts Dylan and Jess celebrate one month since launch and debrief racism and sexism in AI, labor movements in tech spaces, theology, and so much more! Every month The Radical AI Podcast releases a Minisode reviewing the previous month's episodes and updating listeners on insider news from the Radical AI world. As always we invite you to please subscribe, rate, and leave a review to show your support!
May 17, 2020•30 min•Ep. 11
What is the intersection between labor justice movements and the AI technology industry? How can we use design and ethnography to address the relationship between technology, power, and liberation? To answer these questions and more The Radical AI Podcast welcomes Dr. Lilly Irani to the show. Dr. Lilly Irani is an associate professor of communication and science studies at the University of California, San Diego. She is a cofounder and maintainer of digital labor activism tool Turkopticon, and a...
May 13, 2020•55 min•Ep. 10
How is racism embedded in technological systems? How do we address the root causes of discrimination? How do we as designers and consumers of AI technology reclaim our agency and create a world of equity for all? To answer these questions and more The Radical AI Podcast welcomes Dr. Ruha Benjamin to the show. Dr. Benjamin is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and founder of the Just Data Lab. She is author of People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Ce...
May 06, 2020•59 min•Ep. 9
Can you separate technology from power? Is technology ever objective? How do we build technology that meets the needs of everyone? To answer these questions and more The Radical AI Podcast welcomes Dr. Sarah Myers West to the show. Dr. Sarah Myers West is a postdoctoral researcher at the AI Now Institute. Her research centers on the critical study of technology and culture, with an emphasis on historical and ethnographic methods. Dr. West is currently working on a project that addresses the poli...
Apr 29, 2020•44 min•Ep. 8
What does it mean to be an embodied black woman in technology spaces? What is techno-womanism? Do spirituality and liberation have a place in our conversations about technology? To answer these questions and more The Radical AI Podcast welcomes Shamika Goddard to the show. Shamika was born and raised in San Antonio, TX, and is the oldest of four children. Attending math and engineering camps for fun in junior high and high school, Shamika was excited about learning and eager to help save the wor...
Apr 22, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 7
In this Minisode hosts Jess and Dylan debrief the breaking news of contact tracing apps, socio-political power structures, and reveal future guests for the show. Every month The Radical AI Podcast releases a Minisode reviewing the previous month's episodes and updating listeners on insider news from the Radical AI world. As always we invite you to please subscribe, rate, and leave a review to show your support!
Apr 19, 2020•18 min•Ep. 6
What does it mean that Apple and Google have partnered to create contact tracing apps? Should you be worried that your medical data is at stake? What are the ramifications of this unprecedented collaboration of two tech behemoths? To answer these questions and more The Radical AI Podcast welcomes Seda Gurses to the show. Seda is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Multi-Actor Systems at the Faculty of Technology Policy and Management, at TU Delft and an affiliate at the COSIC G...
Apr 15, 2020•44 min•Ep. 5
How does a machine experience your identity? What do women and gender studies have to do with technology design? How do we create more dialogue between industry and the academy? To answer these questions and more The Radical AI Podcast welcomes Morgan Klaus Scheuerman to the show. Morgan Klaus Scheuerman is an Information Science Ph.D. student at the University of Colorado interested in exploring the ways individuals with diverse gender identities interact with technology. Full show notes for th...
Apr 09, 2020•59 min•Ep. 4
Are we being watched? Who is responsible for ensuring the ethical use of our data? What does it mean to be data literate? To answer these questions and more The Radical AI Podcast welcomes Kandrea Wade to the show. Kandrea Wade is a PhD student in the Information Science department at CU Boulder focusing on algorithmic identity and the digital surveillance of marginalized groups. Full show notes for this episode can be found on Radicalai.org If you enjoy this episode please make sure to subscrib...
Apr 09, 2020•49 min•Ep. 3
Are robots moral? How can we tell? What do language, politeness, and persuasion have to do with robot morality? To answer these questions and more The Radical AI Podcast welcomes Dr. Tom Williams to the show. Tom Williams is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Colorado School of Mines, where he directs the Mines Interactive Robotics Research Lab. Full show notes for this episode can be found on Radicalai.org If you enjoy this episode please make sure to subscribe, submit a rating a...
Apr 09, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 2
The Radical AI Podcast will officially launch on 4/10/20!
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