In this fifth episode, Integrity Institute members Talha Baig and Lizzy Donahue talk Integrity in the metaverse. The conversation ranges from defining what the metaverse is to discussing whether it should even exist! We also discuss other fun topics, such as: integrity issues with augmented reality and dating in the metaverse.

Lizzy is an experienced integrity professional who worked at Meta for 7 years where she pioneered machine learning to proactively detect suicidal intent, worked on Integrity at Oculus Rift home, and kept us safe on Horizon worlds. On top of that Lizzy was a “Global Social Benefit” fellow at SCU, where she won the top prize at her senior design conference for building a tool to aid Social Enterprises with training employees and customers. She is now working as a Trust and Safety engineer at Clubhouse.

Talha steps in for Alice Hunsberger as host. Talha worked at Meta for the past 3 years as an ML engineer on Marketplace Integrity and is currently acting as producer for this podcast.

Disclaimer: The views in this episode only represent the views of the people involved in the recording of the episode. They DO NOT represent Meta’s or any other entity’s views. 

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

1:45 What is the metaverse

3:50 Integrity in the metaverse

6:15 Privacy in the metaverse

9:50 Should children be allowed in the metaverse

14:30 Overwatch

18:50 Body language in the metaverse

24:50 Self-governance in the metaverse

27:45 Decentralized recording

29:45 Is the metaverse good for society?

38:10 Dating in the metaverse

40:50 Integrity for Augmented Reality

44:55 Credits

Trust in Tech is hosted by Alice Hunsberger, and produced by Talha Baig.
Edited by Alice Hunsberger.
Music by Zhao Shen. 
Special thanks to Sahar Massachi and Cassandra Marketos for their continued support, and to all the members of the Integrity Institute.

In this third episode, Integrity Institute member Alice Hunsberger talks with Institute cofounders Sahar Massachi and Jeff Allen about the issues around integrity in tech and why the Integrity Institute was founded, how to define integrity work, and why integrity teams are the true long-term growth teams of tech companies.

We have a bit of a deep dive into hate speech and talk about several reasons why it’s important to remove it, and the dreaded death spiral that can happen when platforms don’t invest in integrity properly. 

We also discuss why building social media companies is an ethical endeavor, and the work the Integrity Institute has done to establish a code of ethics and a hippocratic oath for integrity workers. And we touch on Jeff and Sahar’s thoughts on safety regulation for the industry, the importance of initial members to define a group’s norms, the benefit to growing slowly, and why integrity workers are heroes.

Trust in Tech is hosted by Alice Hunsberger, and produced by Talha Baig.
Edited by Alice Hunsberger.
Music by Zhao Shen. 
Special thanks to Sahar Massachi and Cassandra Marketos for their continued support, and to all the members of the Integrity Institute.

In this third episode, Integrity Institute member Alice Hunsberger talks with Institute cofounders Sahar Massachi and Jeff Allen about the issues around integrity in tech and why the Integrity Institute was founded, how to define integrity work, and why integrity teams are the true long-term growth teams of tech companies.

We have a bit of a deep dive into hate speech and talk about several reasons why it’s important to remove it, and the dreaded death spiral that can happen when platforms don’t invest in integrity properly. 

We also discuss why building social media companies is an ethical endeavor, and the work the Integrity Institute has done to establish a code of ethics and a hippocratic oath for integrity workers. And we touch on Jeff and Sahar’s thoughts on safety regulation for the industry, the importance of initial members to define a group’s norms, the benefit to growing slowly, and why integrity workers are heroes.

Trust in Tech is hosted by Alice Hunsberger, and produced by Talha Baig.
Edited by Alice Hunsberger.
Music by Zhao Shen. 
Special thanks to Sahar Massachi and Cassandra Marketos for their continued support, and to all the members of the Integrity Institute.

Integrity Institute members Alice Hunsberger and Zara Perumal talk about mis- and disinformation: how to recognize it and how to contextualize it, both individually and at scale.

Trust in Tech is hosted by Alice Hunsberger, and produced by Talha Baig.

Edited by Alice Hunsberger.

Music by Jao Shen. 

Special thanks to Sahar Massachi and C assandra Marketos for their continued support, and to all the members of the Integrity Institute.

Welcome to the Trust in Tech podcast, a project by the Integrity Institute — a community driven think tank which advances the theory and practice of protecting the social internet, powered by our community of integrity professionals.

In this first episode, Integrity Institute members Alice Hunsberger and Katie Harbath talk on the eve of the US midterms about the issues surrounding civic integrity and elections online; what life after working in tech looks like; and how scared Katie thinks we should be about the 2024 elections.

Links:

Integrity Institute’s Elections Integrity Program

Bipartisan Policy Center: New Survey Data on Who Americans Look To For Election Information (Nov 2, 2022)

Katie Harbath’s newsletter: https://anchorchange.substack.com/