We chat to Steph Jones about her experience of learning to code, helpful advice for those starting out on their own coding journey, and the importance of community in the tech space. Steph Jones is a Senior Clinical Analytics Engineer at the AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare. Steph began her career as a pharmacist before weaving her way into the world of data analytics and ultimately learning to code and working in tech.  

To find out more about Steph’s journey into tech, and for lots more advice and resources, head to: https://www.codingwithsteph.com/ 

Resources mentioned in this episode: 

https://pyladies.com/ 

https://womenindata.co.uk/ 

https://codefirstgirls.com/ 

https://newsletter.codinggrace.com/ 

In this episode, Kerry and Emma chat about the role of an AI ethicist, her research areas of feminism, gender and AI, and the ideas and themes behind her own podcast The Good Robot.

Dr. Kerry McInerney is a Senior Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, where she leads research in the field of AI ethics; as well as an author, researcher, podcaster, and educator. 

Check out The Good Robot podcast: https://www.thegoodrobot.co.uk/ 

For more about Kerry and her work: https://www.kerrymcinerney.com/ 

Resources mentioned in the episode: 

Books: 

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez 

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/435554/invisible-women-by-perez-caroline-criado/9781784706289 

Design Justice by Sasha Costanza-Chock 

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262043458/design-justice/ 

Programmed Inequality by Mar Hicks 

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262535182/programmed-inequality/ 

Papers: 

Drage E, Mackereth K. Does AI Debias Recruitment? Race, Gender, and AI's "Eradication of Difference". Philos Technol. 2022;35(4):89. doi: 10.1007/s13347-022-00543-1. Epub 2022 Oct 10. PMID: 36246553; PMCID: PMC9550152. 

Cave S, Dihal K, Drage E, McInerney K. Who makes AI? Gender and portrayals of AI scientists in popular film, 1920-2020. Public Underst Sci. 2023 Aug;32(6):745-760. doi: 10.1177/09636625231153985. Epub 2023 Feb 13. PMID: 36779283; PMCID: PMC10413781. 

Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence: https://www.lcfi.ac.uk/