Doing Tech Right

Leonard Kleinrock shares insights into the early development of the internet, including his work on the ARPANET. His story offers a unique perspective on the internet's early days and its transformative impact. Larry gets a chance to ask him questions about early safety concerns and what they might have done differently, knowing what we know now.

What does it feel like to experience racism as a black teen boy or adult male?

Dr. Courtney Cogburn, associate professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work and faculty at the Columbia Population Research Center and Data Science Institute, hopes her virtual reality experience, “1,000 Cut Journey,” will help viewers better understand both what it feels like and how racism plays out in our society.

“I thought maybe people need to walk in the experience, maybe they need to have a more personal connection that's less intellectual…so [VR] presented an opportunity to do that,” Cogburn says.

Listen to Using Virtual Reality to Fight Racism from Are We Doing Tech Right? now.

Generative AI is transforming many aspects of American life, including education.

In this week’s podcast, Larry talks to ConnectSafely’s education director Kerry Gallagher, who’s also a full-time educator and administrator at St. John’s Prep in Danvers, Mass., about how generative AI will impact teaching and learning.

Kerry encourages teachers to use generative AI to start discussions with students about their work. And if a student uses generative AI to complete assignments even though they weren’t supposed to, she looks for the “why.”

Today we have two guests, Viktorya Vilk, the Director for Digital Safety and Free Expression at PEN America and Kat Lo, the content moderation lead at Meedan.org.

This episode addresses their new collaborative report called Shouting Into the Void: Why Reporting Abuse to Social Media Platforms Is So Hard and How to Fix It.

Larry, Viktorya and Kat discuss their findings, their recommendations for social media companies and talk about what everyday people can do to stop online harassment and abuse.

Tracy Elizabeth, Head of Family Safety & Developmental Health at TikTok, understands parents' fears surrounding social media. At the same time, she also sees the immense potential parents hold to shape their teens' positive engagement with technology.

Christine Haughney Dare-Bryan, host of the podcast "Computer Freaks," tells us about her dad's role in shaping the ARPANET. She shares his fears about harassment even in the early days of what was to become the internet we know today.

Vint Cerf is widely regarded as one of the "fathers" of the internet as designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. He currently serves as Chief Evangelist at Google.

In this wide ranging discussion with ConnectSafely CEO and journalist Larry Magid, Cerf talks about the early days, what they did right, what he'd do differently if he could do it again and what challenges lay ahead.