In this first-ever episode of the WatersWorks podcast, John K. Waters talks with Ashiqur KhudaBukhsh, project scientist in the School of Computer Science at the Carnegie Mellon's Language Technologies Institute,  about his work on machine learning classifiers that sorted the hopeful from the hateful in hundreds of thousands of comments on social media.

Links to the research papers mentioned in the podcast can be found at https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~akhudabu/  

Read John's written coverage of the research on PureAI.com:
https://pureai.com/articles/2020/01/15/carnegie-mellon-ai-hate-speech.aspx
https://pureai.com/articles/2020/08/12/hate-speech-to-hope-speech-part-ii.aspx