Let's Chat Ethics

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Let's Chat Ethics episodes

  • What does Leonardo da Vinci have on AI?

    Is AI a new tool for art or does it take away the human touch? 

    This week we look at digital art and art created by AI after the recent news that Christie's Auction House sold the artist Beeple's digital art for $69,346,250. 

     

    Article mentions: 

    Art Net 

    Christie's Auction House

    30 min
  • The Unsurprising Unfairness of FAIR

    Is Facebook's FAIR department truly fair?

    This week we chat about Facebook's role in spreading misinformation and take a look at the MIT Technology Review article, 'How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation' by Karen Hao. 

     

    Article: Link  

    30 min
  • Can Ethical AI Ever Work in Industry?

    Can ethical AI ever work in industry? Will it take regulation or will corporations take it upon themselves? 

    This week we look more Google's approach to ethical AI and predictions for the future of ethical AI in industry. 

    Article mention: link

    34 min
  • Human-Centric Tech with Anne T Griffin
    What does human centric tech actually mean? How can we make products more accessible? 
     
    This week we are joined by the amazing Anne T Griffin to share her experience and expertise in tech.
     
    Anne is a leader in product management, a startup advisor, and subject matter expert in AI, blockchain, tech ethics and product inclusivity. She is the founder and Chief Product Officer at Griffin Product & Growth, and the Chief Product & Curriculum Officer of Tech 2025, an emerging technology community and platform to teach professionals to prepare for the future of work. Her workshop Human First, Product Second teaches organizations and professionals how to think about building more inclusive and ethical tech products. She has lectured at prestigious universities across North America such as Columbia University, the University of Montreal, and Morgan State University, spoken at major events such as SXSW, and created courses for O’Reilly Media. She has built her career in tech over the last decade working with organizations such as Priceline, Microsoft, Comcast, Mercedes-Benz, and ConsenSys, the premiere blockchain software technology company on the Ethereum blockchain. Anne continues to work with and research the practical human aspects of technology and building products with emerging and disruptive technologies. Outside of her work, Anne is a voracious learner, frequent traveler (when we’re not in a pandemic), and seriously committed to her self-care and workouts.
     
    Twitter: @annetgriffin
    LinkedIn: Anne T Griffin 
    Website: www.annetgriffin.com
     

    Book mention:

    Building for Everyone: Expand Your Market With Design Practices from Google's Product Inclusion Team by Annie Jean-Baptiste 

    42 min
  • An Eventful Week in AI Ethics

    This week we chat about the recent New Yorker article 'Who Should Stop Unethical AI, Google firing their co-leads of Ethical AI and we bring back the conversation about publishing unethical research. 

     

    Article: Who Should Stop Unethical AI? 

    26 min
  • Is Machine Learning the New Beef?

    Is AI sustainable?  

    What is the carbon footprint and long term sustainability of machine learning? This week we look at an academic paper 'Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP' by Emma Strubell, Ananya Ganesh and Andrew McCallum from the University of Massachusetts. 

    22 min
  • Sorry To Get Political Again..with Zeerak Waseem

    Why is combating online hate speech so hard? How do we get to a safe space on social media?

    We are back with Zeerak Waseem for the second part of our conversation about online hate speech. Zeerak is currently a PhD student at the University of Sheffield. He researches and specialises in online hate speech. 

    Disclaimer: we might have gone off topic and got political again.. 

    48 min
  • Sorry To Get Political with Zeerak Waseem

    What should Big Tech do about hate speech online? What CAN they do?

    This week we are joined by Zeerak Waseem, who researches and specialises in online hate speech. Zeerak is currently a PhD student at the University of Sheffield. Full disclosure: we go completely off-track.

     

    25 min

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Join Amanda and Oriana, two friends who love to talk about the state of AI and its ethical implications and sometimes a special guest. Anything goes from academic papers to art, movies and books in…