In this episode we talk tech with Digital Democracy expert Dr Marcus Tomalin.

Can our computing systems be better and do better? How can we – everyday users and professional coders - spot the hidden biases and fleeting programming decisions that make a lasting difference in ‘real’ life?

And can we even imagine what we’ll be asking Alexa ten years from now?

(This episode was recorded before Covid-19 lockdown restrictions and when face to face teaching at the University of Cambridge was still occurring)

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To hear Marcus Tomalin talking more about Artificial Intelligence and Social Change please click here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhcKL7pb180&ab_channel=CRASSHCambridge

To read Marcus Tomalin's journal article on 'Quarantining Online Hate Speech', discussed in this episode, please click here:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-019-09516-z