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/