The Tech Humanist Show

The Tech Humanist Show explores how data and technology shape the human experience. It's recorded live each week in a live-streamed video program before it's made available in audio format. Hosted by Kate O’Neill.

About this episode's guest:

John C. Havens is Executive Director of the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems. He is also executive director of the Council on Extended Intelligence (CXI). He previously served as an EVP at a top-ten global PR firm, where he counseled clients like Gillette, HP, and Merck on emerging and social media issues. John has authored the books Heartificial Intelligence and Hacking Happiness and has been a contributing writer for Mashable, The Guardian, and The Huffington Post. He has been quoted on issues relating to technology, business, and well being by USA Today, Fast Company, BBC News, Mashable, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, Forbes, INC, PR Week, and Advertising Age.

John was also a professional actor in New York City for over 15 years, appearing in principal roles on Broadway, television, and film.

He tweets as @JohnCHavens.

This episode streamed live on Thursday, September 3, 2020.

The Tech Humanist Show explores how data and technology shape the human experience. It's recorded live each week in a live-streamed video program before it's made available in audio format. Hosted by Kate O’Neill.

About this episode's guest:

John C. Havens is Executive Director of the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems. He is also executive director of the Council on Extended Intelligence (CXI). He previously served as an EVP at a top-ten global PR firm, where he counseled clients like Gillette, HP, and Merck on emerging and social media issues. John has authored the books Heartificial Intelligence and Hacking Happiness and has been a contributing writer for Mashable, The Guardian, and The Huffington Post. He has been quoted on issues relating to technology, business, and well being by USA Today, Fast Company, BBC News, Mashable, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, Forbes, INC, PR Week, and Advertising Age.

John was also a professional actor in New York City for over 15 years, appearing in principal roles on Broadway, television, and film.

He tweets as @JohnCHavens.

This episode streamed live on Thursday, September 3, 2020.

The Tech Humanist Show explores how data and technology shape the human experience. It's recorded live each week in a live-streamed video program before it's made available in audio format. Hosted by Kate O’Neill.

About this episode's guest:

Dorothea Baur is a leading expert & advisor in Europe on ethics, responsibility, and sustainability across industries such as finance, technology, and beyond. Her PhD is in NGO-business partnerships, and she’s been active in research and projects around sustainable investment, corporate social responsibility, and increasingly, emerging technology such as AI. She’s also been developing an audit system for contact tracing against the background of COVID-19 as a ForHumanity Fellow. She is founder and owner of Baur Consulting AG, and among her many distinctions, has been named as one of the "100 brilliant women in AI ethics."

She tweets as @DorotheaBaur.

This episode streamed live on Thursday, August 27, 2020.

The Tech Humanist Show explores how data and technology shape the human experience. It's recorded live each week in a live-streamed video program before it's made available in audio format. Hosted by Kate O’Neill.

About this episode's guest:

Dorothea Baur is a leading expert & advisor in Europe on ethics, responsibility, and sustainability across industries such as finance, technology, and beyond. Her PhD is in NGO-business partnerships, and she’s been active in research and projects around sustainable investment, corporate social responsibility, and increasingly, emerging technology such as AI. She’s also been developing an audit system for contact tracing against the background of COVID-19 as a ForHumanity Fellow. She is founder and owner of Baur Consulting AG, and among her many distinctions, has been named as one of the "100 brilliant women in AI ethics."

She tweets as @DorotheaBaur.

This episode streamed live on Thursday, August 27, 2020.

The Tech Humanist Show explores how data and technology shape the human experience. It's recorded live each week in a live-streamed video program before it's made available in audio format. Hosted by Kate O’Neill.

About this episode's guest:

Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips is the author of The Future of Feeling: Building Empathy in a Tech-Obsessed World. She is a journalist and editor whose writing on law, finance, health, and technology has appeared in the Establishment, VICE, Quartz, Institutional Investor magazine, Law360, Columbia Journalism Review, Lithub, Scientific American, NY Post, Salon, and Narratively, among others. She writes a blog and newsletter about empathy featuring reportage, essays, and interviews.

She tweets as @kaitlinugolik.

This episode streamed live on Thursday, August 20, 2020.

The Tech Humanist Show explores how data and technology shape the human experience. It's recorded live each week in a live-streamed video program before it's made available in audio format. Hosted by Kate O’Neill.

About this episode's guest:

Kaitlin Ugolik Phillips is the author of The Future of Feeling: Building Empathy in a Tech-Obsessed World. She is a journalist and editor whose writing on law, finance, health, and technology has appeared in the Establishment, VICE, Quartz, Institutional Investor magazine, Law360, Columbia Journalism Review, Lithub, Scientific American, NY Post, Salon, and Narratively, among others. She writes a blog and newsletter about empathy featuring reportage, essays, and interviews.

She tweets as @kaitlinugolik.

This episode streamed live on Thursday, August 20, 2020.

The Tech Humanist Show explores how data and technology shape the human experience. It's recorded live each week in a live-streamed video program before it's made available in audio format. Hosted by Kate O’Neill.

About this episode's guest:

Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the Department of Information Studies where she serves as the Co-Director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry. She is the author of a best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic bias in commercial search engines, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press).

She tweets as @safiyanoble.

This episode streamed live on Thursday, August 13, 2020.

Highlights:

2:00 What has it been like in your life and work to have authored a category-defining book?

4:16 how the conversation has changed

6:57 career arc

7:06 theater!

09:09 influences

10:55 audience question: when you're teaching on this, what activities resonate with your students

16:36 "what the humanities and social sciences do is they give you a really great vocabulary for talking about the things you care about and for you know looking at them closely"

17:36 algorithms offline?

19:38 what is the Center for Critical Internet Inquiry at UCLA doing? (site: c2i2.ucla.edu)

20:17 big announcement!

29:07 the challenges for companies want to address the oppression in their own tech

47:56 what makes you hopeful? (BEAUTIFUL answer)

The Tech Humanist Show explores how data and technology shape the human experience. It's recorded live each week in a live-streamed video program before it's made available in audio format. Hosted by Kate O’Neill.

About this episode's guest:

Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the Department of Information Studies where she serves as the Co-Director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry. She is the author of a best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic bias in commercial search engines, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press).

She tweets as @safiyanoble.

This episode streamed live on Thursday, August 13, 2020.

Highlights:

2:00 What has it been like in your life and work to have authored a category-defining book?

4:16 how the conversation has changed

6:57 career arc

7:06 theater!

09:09 influences

10:55 audience question: when you're teaching on this, what activities resonate with your students

16:36 "what the humanities and social sciences do is they give you a really great vocabulary for talking about the things you care about and for you know looking at them closely"

17:36 algorithms offline?

19:38 what is the Center for Critical Internet Inquiry at UCLA doing? (site: c2i2.ucla.edu)

20:17 big announcement!

29:07 the challenges for companies want to address the oppression in their own tech

47:56 what makes you hopeful? (BEAUTIFUL answer)

The Tech Humanist Show explores how data and technology shape the human experience. It's recorded live each week in a live-streamed video program before it's made available in audio format. Hosted by Kate O’Neill.

About this episode's guest:

David Ryan Polgar is a leading voice in the areas of tech ethics, digital citizenship, and what it means to be human in the digital age. David is a global speaker, a regular media commentator for national & international press, and a frequent advisor & consultant on building a better tech future. He is the co-host/co-creator of Funny as Tech, a NYC-based podcast & occasional live show that deals with our messy relationship with technology, and is the founder of All Tech Is Human, an accelerator for tech consideration & hub for the Responsible Tech movement. David serves as a founding member of TikTok's Content Advisory Council, along with the Technology & Adolescent Mental Wellness (TAM program).

He tweets as @techethicist.

This episode streamed live on Thursday, August 6, 2020.

Episode highlights:

1:20 David Ryan Polgar intro

3:21 weird coincidence?!

4:40 and a tornado?!

6:05 previous podcast discussion — will update here with a link when it goes live!

7:23 attorney and educator?!

10:44 "no application without representation"

11:56 the politics of technology

15:55 impact over intent

16:25 social media and free speech online

21:13 content moderation: humans and AI

24:32 the role of friction in tech

27:32 distinguishing between thought and action in law

28:24 "your unfiltered brain is not what should be out on the internet"

28:50 brain to text

30:59 "are we an algorithm"

37:14 "do we even want these systems"

46:05 "I wanted to put the agency back on us"

46:28 "the future is not written"

53:55 "everybody needs to add their voice"

54:54 How can people find you and follow your work? (alltechishuman.org, [email protected]; funnyastech.com; @techethicist; David Ryan Polgar on LinkedIn; techethicist.com; davidryanpolgar.com)

The Tech Humanist Show explores how data and technology shape the human experience. It's recorded live each week in a live-streamed video program before it's made available in audio format. Hosted by Kate O’Neill.

About this episode's guest:

David Ryan Polgar is a leading voice in the areas of tech ethics, digital citizenship, and what it means to be human in the digital age. David is a global speaker, a regular media commentator for national & international press, and a frequent advisor & consultant on building a better tech future. He is the co-host/co-creator of Funny as Tech, a NYC-based podcast & occasional live show that deals with our messy relationship with technology, and is the founder of All Tech Is Human, an accelerator for tech consideration & hub for the Responsible Tech movement. David serves as a founding member of TikTok's Content Advisory Council, along with the Technology & Adolescent Mental Wellness (TAM program).

He tweets as @techethicist.

This episode streamed live on Thursday, August 6, 2020.

Episode highlights:

1:20 David Ryan Polgar intro

3:21 weird coincidence?!

4:40 and a tornado?!

6:05 previous podcast discussion — will update here with a link when it goes live!

7:23 attorney and educator?!

10:44 "no application without representation"

11:56 the politics of technology

15:55 impact over intent

16:25 social media and free speech online

21:13 content moderation: humans and AI

24:32 the role of friction in tech

27:32 distinguishing between thought and action in law

28:24 "your unfiltered brain is not what should be out on the internet"

28:50 brain to text

30:59 "are we an algorithm"

37:14 "do we even want these systems"

46:05 "I wanted to put the agency back on us"

46:28 "the future is not written"

53:55 "everybody needs to add their voice"

54:54 How can people find you and follow your work? (alltechishuman.org, [email protected]; funnyastech.com; @techethicist; David Ryan Polgar on LinkedIn; techethicist.com; davidryanpolgar.com)