Students across the country are graded by artificial intelligence. But can an algorithm really know how to write?

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Flawed Algorithms Are Grading Millions of Students’ Essays

How I’m using AI to write my next novel

Featuring:

@SigalSamuel

@ToddFeathers

Host:

Arielle Duhaime-Ross (@adrs), host and lead reporter of Reset

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Reset’s end-of-year tech episode, featuring Adrianne Jeffries from The Markup, and executive editor of The Verge, TC Sottek.

Featuring

@SeriousStoic

@adrjeffries

Links to resources discussed:

Underunderstood podcast

TC Sottek at The Verge

Host:

Arielle Duhaime-Ross (@adrs), host and lead reporter of Reset

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Google says it's reached "quantum supremacy." We break down what that means for computing and why IBM is pushing back.

Featuring:

@KSHartnett

Quantum Supremacy Is Coming: Here’s What You Should Know

Google and IBM Clash Over Milestone Quantum Computing Experiment

Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor

Leveraging Secondary Storage to Simulate Deep 54-qubit Sycamore Circuits

Hosts:

Arielle Duhaime-Ross (@adrs), host and lead reporter of Reset

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As new technology enters the religious domain, how might artificial intelligence play a role?

Vox.com's Sigal Samuel guest-hosts this episode of Reset.

Featuring:

@SigalSamuel

Links:

Robot priests can bless you, advise you, and even perform your funeral

“Computer Ethics” by Deborah Johnson

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In this episode, two stories on one theme: how tech companies interact with communities they're located in, and their impact on emergency services.

Featuring

Anjeanette Damon

Sarah Emerson

Links to resources discussed:

West World: Anjeanette Damon's episode for The City

The City Podcast

How Facebook Bought a Police Force

Host:

Arielle Duhaime-Ross (@adrs), host and lead reporter of Reset

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Amazon’s Ring has some safety issues. How secure are these home security systems?

Featured Guests

@Jessica_Holley

@ranimolla

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Family says hackers accessed a Ring camera in their 8-year-old daughter’s room

How Amazon’s Ring is creating a surveillance network with video doorbells

The rise of fear-based social media like Nextdoor, Citizen, and now Amazon’s Neighbors

Host:

Arielle Duhaime-Ross (@adrs), host and lead reporter of Reset

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The genetic genealogy website used to find the Golden State Killer has been sold to a DNA forensics company.

Featuring:

@MeganMolteni

Peter Aldhous

Links:

10 Years Ago, DNA Tests Were The Future Of Medicine. Now They’re A Social Network — And A Data Privacy Mess

A DNA Firm That Caters to Police Just Bought a Genealogy Site

Host:

Arielle Duhaime-Ross (@adrs), host and lead reporter of Reset

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When we shop online, we tend to think of it as a solitary experience free of sales associates and watchful eyes. But it turns out, some companies can see every move you make in their online stores, in real time.

Featuring

Jessica Testa: @jtes

Hadar Paz: @hadarpaz

Links to resources discussed:

They see you when you're shopping

Powerfront

Host:

Arielle Duhaime-Ross (@adrs), host and lead reporter of Reset

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Uber released its first-ever safety report. How should we think about its numbers and what do they tell us about safety and sexual misconduct in the gig economy?

GUESTS:

@kateconger

@AJRavenelleNYC

LINKS: 

Uber Says 3,045 Sexual Assaults Were Reported in U.S. Rides Last Year

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/05/technology/uber-sexual-assaults-murders-deaths-safety.html

Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy

https://www.alexandreajravenelle.com/book

Uber CEO Q&A: When rape happens in an Uber, who’s responsible?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/06/uber-ceo-qa-when-rape-happens-an-uber-whos-responsible/

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A law called FOSTA-SESTA, and its unintended consequences.

Featuring

Aja Romano 

Rep. Ro Khanna

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RO KHANNA HOPES THIS BILL WILL PAVE THE WAY TO REPEALING FOSTA

The LGBTQ rights issue 2020 Democrats still aren’t talking about

Host:

Arielle Duhaime-Ross (@adrs), host and lead reporter of Reset

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