In this episode, we'll be discussing deepfakes.

Questions we’ll try to answer:

1. What are deepfakes?
2. Can they become dangerous?
3. How can we trust what we see?
4. What is trust? 
5. How do humans trust other humans and institutions?
6. How does trust need to change to stay up to speed with technology?
7. Who’s responsible for the consequences of AI technology such as deepfakes?
8. What does the future hold for us?

This episode features an amazing guest: Abdo Hassan is a Creative Technologist and Data practitioner interested in the intersection between tech, society, equality, and sustainability. 

A quote from Abdo’s Medium blog: “My full-time job obliges me to think about how the technological and the human intersect. In my worlds, the technological is anthropological.”

Find Abdo on Twitter & Instagram @abdoRepublic 

List of references

• Video for more technical information
• “Who can you trust” by Rachel Botsman
• The Guardian - Article about Deepfakes
• Erik Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development
• Bowlby’s Attachment Theory

Abdo Hassan’s references:

• Web of Trust
• Russian firm with an AI designer
• Bots and Wikipedia
• Article co-written by a Neural Network

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In this episode, we'll be discussing #freebritney.

Inspired by the New York Times documentary “Framing Britney”, we take a look at Britney Spears’ evolution and that of her fans from a psychological perspective:

1. General comments on the documentary
2. What the “self” and anger might have to do with why things happened the way they did
3. Why people are part of groups
4. Why people become stans & part of fandoms (when there are many other causes to care about)

List of references

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self
• https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ageing-and-society/article/abs/construction-and-deconstruction-of-self-in-alzheimers-disease/874203D10B5B87CAF174CCA4E2F2CF30
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3885303/
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30661243/
• https://dictionary.apa.org/self
• https://ourworldindata.org/mental-health
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022399900001744
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zjgv6v4

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In this episode, we'll be discussing Gender Reveals: 

1.  What they are
2. Why they are simplifying reality
3. What gender, sex, sex assignment, gender identity, and sexual orientation actually are
4. Why the gender binary causes issues in our society
5. Why people still celebrate gender reveals
6. Why people get defensive when their views on gender get challenged

Guest Speaker

Remco Boxelaar (they/them). Founder of Corporate Queer. A company striving for a world in which everyone can be authentic.

Connect with Remco on LinkedIn and follow Corporate Queer on Instagram.

List of references

•  She/He/They/Me by Robyn Ryle
• Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon

 
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In this episode, we'll be discussing QAnon.

1. What it is
2. How social media algorithms play a role here
3. What populism has to do with it
4. Why our unconscious confirmation bias is important to look at
5. Why certain people might be susceptible to QAnon and other conspiracy theories
6. What we can do to keep ourselves and our beloved ones in check

List of references

• BBC article
• NY Times Article
• Confirmation bias on Wikipedia
• Populism - the book
• Rabbit Hole Podcast (NY Times)

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