Stanford Radio

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman:

"Wildfire Issues with guest Buzz Thompson"

Is climate change to blame for recent natural disasters like California’s Camp Fire? Will law and policy make the appropriate adjustments to protect lives and property? Buzz Thompson, an expert in water and natural resources law shares his expertise on the issue.

Originally aired on SiriusXM on January 19, 2019.

Recorded at Stanford Video.

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman:

"Climate Change and the Law with guest Tom Heller"

Stanford Law Professor Tom Heller, faculty director of the new Sustainable Finance Initiative at Stanford, discusses the legal and financial challenges in the effort to solve climate change.

Originally aired on SiriusXM on January 19, 2019.

Recorded at Stanford Video.

School's In with Dan Schwartz and Denise Pope:

"Improving Education from the Inside with guest Heather Hough"

Policy Analysis for California Education executive director Heather Hough talks about the value of arming local officials with the best information to make great decisions when it comes to improving schools.

Originally aired on SiriusXM on January 19, 2019.

Recorded at Stanford Video.

School's In with Dan Schwartz and Denise Pope:

"Learning, Design, and Technology with guest Karin Forsell"

Karin Forsell, director of the Learning, design, and technology master’s program, discusses some of the ways in which students and teachers are making the most of technology in the classroom.

Originally aired on SiriusXM on January 19, 2019.

Recorded at Stanford Video.

The Future of Everything with Russ Altman:

"Alex Stamos: How do we preserve free speech in the era of fake news?"

It’s nothing we haven’t already heard – the news you read is being shaped by the ubiquitous presence of social media. So-called “fake news” spread by bots and social media may continue to influence American elections and, ultimately, democracy.

Alex Stamos, the former chief security officer at Facebook and an adjunct professor with Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, explained at a recent live taping of “The Future of Everything” that the emergence of social media has made everyone a potential publisher. “We will never go back to the era in which a small number of people control the flow of information,” Stamos says.

While social media can be credited with democratizing the dissemination of information, these platforms have also become a hotbed of false and misleading content spread by domestic and foreign actors. Solving the “fake news” problem is extremely difficult, Stamos explains. “It turns out that regulating social media actually means asking social media companies to regulate people’s freedom of speech.” The danger here, Stamos emphasizes, is that this regulation will be done in a way that benefits the short-term interests of a company and does not uphold basic human rights.

Originally aired on SiriusXM on December 15, 2018.

The Future of Everything with Russ Altman:

"Adina Sterling: How will artificial intelligence change hiring?"

New technologies help bring increased efficiency to the hiring process, but also pose significant challenges.

The next job search you conduct will likely be shaped by artificial intelligence. In the age of LinkedIn and Monster.com, job hunters can count on their resumes being screened by non-human intelligence. So what does this mean for the future of hiring?

At a recent live taping of the Stanford School of Engineering podcast “The Future of Everything,” Adina Sterling, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business who studies labor markets, said that roughly three-quarters of the job applications received by major companies will be touched in some way by artificial intelligence. Because these hiring bots look for very specific criteria, qualified applicants may be screened out early in the process if their resumes don’t contain “the right buzzwords to get through the filters. It’s just as likely today as it was 20 years ago that a diamond in the rough will be overlooked,” she said.

While the use of artificial intelligence allows for gains in efficiency for both job seekers and potential employees, there is the danger that AI algorithms will embody and perpetuate existing bias. Sterling noted that she has been encouraged to see that companies are moving with a lot of caution in the area of AI and hiring. There is a recognition that machines can’t do this work on their own and that, at a minimum, a supervised AI hiring process is necessary.

Originally aired on SirusXM on December 15, 2018.

Stanford Pathfinders with Howard Wolf:

"Launching Students to Adulthood with guest Abby Falik"

Global Citizen Year founder and CEO Abby Falik discusses the importance of taking a year off between college and high school to work on projects in a non-classroom environment. Many call it taking a gap year, but she explains why it should be called a launch year.

Originally aired on SiriusXM on December 15, 2018.

Recorded at Stanford Video.

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman:

"Religious Liberty in the Workplace with guests Jim Sonne and Liz Klein"

Jim Sonne, professor of law and founding director of the Religious

Liberty Clinic at Stanford, and law student Liz Klein discuss the constitutional right of religious liberty and how that sometimes clashes with workplace rules.

Originally aired on SiriusXM on December 8, 2018.

Recorded at Stanford Video.

Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman:

"Barriers to Voting with guest Rabia Belt"

During each election, people with disabilities across the country face hurdles to casting their votes while thousands of formerly-incarcerated citizens are barred completely from this essential democratic act. Assistant Professor of Law Rabia Belt discusses voting rights for people with disabilities and the formerly incarcerated.

Originally aired on SiriusXM on December 8, 2018.

Recorded at Stanford Video.

Stanford Pathfinders with Howard Wolf:

"Seeing Around Corners with guest Ann Miura-Ko"

Floodgate co-founder Ann Miura-Ko discusses the challenges of building a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. The self proclaimed investment ninja talks about some of the investments that helped build her reputation as one of the most powerful women in start-ups and what makes up the DNA of a great entrepreneur.

Originally aired on SiriusXM on December 1, 2018.