By DigEthix
We use religion and philosophy as resources to answer today's ethical challenges involving technology. We have interviews with experts and audio essays discussing the details of how to make decisio
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The podcast currently has 28 episodes available.
Can you ever have so much data that it becomes unmanageable? Are there ways make the way you use data more effective? In this episode, Seth talks to Lauren Maffeo about how to design a data governance framework that will best suit your needs.
Lauren is a service designer at Steampunk, a human-centered design firm serving the federal government. She is also a founding editor of Springer’s AI and Ethics journal and a former area editor for Data and Policy, an open access journal with Cambridge University Press. She also teaches courses on design at George Washington University. She is the author of the book, Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up: Six Steps to Build a Data-Driven Culture.
Links to more from Lauren:
LinkedIn
Twitter
Book - 35% off E-book with code: DATAGOV23
Lightning talk at Open Source Summit North America
Credits:
Music: “Dreams” from Bensound.com
Episode art: Nicole Smith
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When ChatGPT dropped in November 2022, it had teachers and students scrambling to figure out what to do with this new service. Seth outlines four main ways to handle ChatGPT in the classroom and notes some pitfalls of using ChatGPT uncritically.
Potentially Helpful Links
Vectoring Words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQddtTdmG_8
AI Models & Language Models: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rURRYI66E54
GPT-4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zW33LfffPc&list=PL1v8zpldgH3pQwRz1FORZdChMaNZaR3pu&index=82
https://monkeylearn.com/natural-language-processing/
Credits:
Music: “Dreams” by Benjamin Tissot from Bensound.com
Episode/Podcast Art: Nicole Smith
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Should you use dating apps? What skills do you need to form a relationship? What role does technology play in our relationships? Ethicist Kate Ott helps us answer these questions and more.
Dr. Ott is the Jerre and Mary Joy Stead Professor of Christian Ethics at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. She received her PhD in Christian Social Ethics from Union Theological Seminary and her Master of Arts in Religion from Yale Divinity School. She is the author of several books, including two on technology, Christian Ethics for a Digital Society and Sex, Tech, and Faith: Ethics for a Digital Age.
Credits:
Intro/outro Song: Dreams, composed by Benjamin Tissot
Potentially Helpful Links:
https://www.pewresearch.org/ft_2020-02-06_datingtakeaways_01/
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2023/02/02/key-findings-about-online-dating-in-the-u-s/
https://news.stanford.edu/2019/08/21/online-dating-popular-way-u-s-couples-meet/
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How can parents navigate the landscape of technology? How our experience with technology differed by generation? How do we build trust across these generations.
Dr. Brady has a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Fordham University and currently works as a Professor of Psychology at St. Anselm College. She has written a forthcoming book on the topic called, Technology Touchpoints: Parenting in the Digital Dystopia. The book explores potential developmental moments that impact kids for the rest of their lives.
Potentially Helpful Links:
https://lorettalcbrady.wordpress.com/
https://twitter.com/profbrady
https://www.brazeltontouchpoints.org/
https://www.amazon.com/Technology-Touchpoints-Parenting-Digital-Dystopia/dp/1538163926#:~:text=Technology%20Touchpoints%20is%20a%20compelling,our%20families%20and%20our%20lives.
Credits:
"Dreams" by Benjamin Tissot
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How do we determine what is ethical in technology? How do we do ethical research? How do we bridge gaps in expertise? How do we discover and resolve resolve ethical problems?
In this episode, Dr. Borhane Blili-Hamelin discusses the challenges of interdisciplinary research and his workshop on Twitter's bias bounty program. Bo has a PhD in philosophy from Columbia University. He founded Accountability Case Labs, which seeks to leverage expertise in different fields towards accountability in artificial intelligence Research. Bo currently works as a consultant for BABL AI.
Potentially Helpful Links:
https://borhane.xyz/
https://accountabilitycaselabs.xyz/
https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/insights/2021/algorithmic-bias-bounty-challenge
Credits:
Music: "Dreams" from Bensound.com
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digethix.org
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What is digital ethics? Why should you care? In this episode, we go over some basic definitions and plans for Season 3 of the podcast.
Potentially Helpful Links:
https://www.scu.edu/ethics/focus-areas/technology-ethics/
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250074317/automatinginequality
https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/technology-and-the-virtues-a-philosophical-guide-to-a-future-worth-wanting/
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What are safety technologies? How do we best utilize our resources in order to prevent tragedies? How does a crisis affect the process of consent?
Ryan Mayfield is the director of strategy at Live Safe, a mobile safety application company looking to connect individuals and safety officials in order to build better communities. Ryan is an expert in safety communications and user engagement, with experience in industry, government, and academia. Together with the Social Computing Systems (SALT) Lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, he helped publish the first-ever study of safety communications using anonymized user data. A graduate of Stanford University, Ryan remains affiliated with the Stanford University Peace Innovation Lab.
Potentially Helpful Links:
Dave Ropeik book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7122765-how-risky-is-it-really
911 rollout - https://www.nena.org/page/911overviewfacts
Text-to-911 - https://www.911.gov/issue_textto911.html
Credits:
Music: "Dreams" from Bensound.com
Edits: Julia Brukx
Episode art: Julia Donohue
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After Dinner Conversation is online ethics magazine and podcast. We discuss the role of stories in exploring ethical situations and how the magazine uses discussion questions to prompt discussion.
How do you personally navigate situations in which you can’t tell immediately if a decision will be right or wrong? In what situations do you find yourself unsure of what choice to make? How has technology impacted the situations that you find yourself feeling this way?
Potentially helpful links:
Magazine: https://www.afterdinnerconversation.com/
Star Trek episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_That_Be_Your_Last_Battlefield
Aristotle’s criticisms of democracy: https://fs.blog/aristotles-politics/
Credits:
Music: "Dreams" from Bensound.com
Edits: Julia Brukx
Episode art: Nicole Smith
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Dr. Benjamin Chicka has a PhD in Religion from Claremont Graduate University. He currently serves as a lecturer of philosophy and religion at Curry College. He is the author of the book, Playing as Others, which will be the main topic of our conversation today. He is interested in how video games can be used as a source of positive ethical formation, leading people to eventually act more empathetically in society at large, particularly towards people who have been historically marginalized.
Key questions: how do we learn to act ethically? What tools do we have to train ourselves in the direction that we hope to go? Should videogames be a part of this formation strategy or are they merely diversions?
Potentially helpful links:
Book: https://www.baylorpress.com/9781481315463/playing-as-others/
Gamergate info: https://www.vox.com/2014/9/6/6111065/gamergate-explained-everybody-fighting
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/10/14/the-only-guide-to-gamergate-you-will-ever-need-to-read/
Forums/video game communities
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/gamesblog/2013/jul/31/gamer-communities-positive-side-twitter
Papers please
https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2013/11/10/244413539/papers-please-puts-your-loyalty-sympathy-to-the-test
Exploitation in the video game industry
https://time.com/5603329/e3-video-game-creators-union/
Credits:
Music: "Dreams" from Bensound.com
Edits: Julia Brukx
Episode art: Julia Donohue
Contact us:
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facebook.com/digethix
twitter.com/digethix
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EMAIL: [email protected]
Willys DeVoll is a professional writer and co-author of the book, Leadership is a Relationship: How to Put People First in the Digital World, with Michael S. Erwin. Willys is the founder of Will Digital, a writing and design agency. As an expert at the intersection of language and technology, he’s spoken at a wide range of industry conferences and on podcasts. Willys earned master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Stanford University, where he studied English and philosophy.
Willys helps us to think about the following questions: What traits make for an effective leader today? How can we build authentic relationships in our increasingly technology mediated world? Is it necessary to squeeze every ounce of productivity out of ourselves?
More information on Willys and the Book:
https://www.leadershipisarelationship.com/
https://willysdevoll.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wdevoll/
https://twitter.com/willysdevoll
Potentially Helpful Links
McDonald Conference for Leaders and Character https://www.westpoint.edu/leadership-center/mcdonald-leadership-conference#:~:text=The%20mission%20of%20the%20McDonald,skills%2C%20fosters%20critical%20thinking%20and
Post-covid workplace https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/future-of-work/the-future-of-work-after-covid-19#
Crossfit info: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/crossfit-ceo-steps-down-after-inflammatory-george-floyd-comments-n1228941
Chandler Smith and Noah Olsen https://barbend.com/noah-ohlsen-chandler-smith-withdraw-2020-crossfit-games/
Credits:
Music: "Dreams" from Bensound.com
Edits: Julia Brukx
Episode art: Julia Donohue
Contact us:
digethix.org
facebook.com/digethix
twitter.com/digethix
instagram.com/digethixfuture
EMAIL: [email protected]
The podcast currently has 28 episodes available.