Podcasts about technochauvinism

Prva mednarodna konferenca o digitalni suverenosti DISCO SlovenijaKonec oktobra je v Ljubljani potekala konferenca DISCO, ki je združila tako tuje kot tudi domače govorce in govorke, strokovnjakinje in strokovnjake ter goste iz prakse, ki so preizpraševali prevladujoče poglede na tehnološki napredek in se pogovarjali o tem, kako razviti boljše tehnologije za vse. Pred naš mikrofon smo povabili tri sogovornice. Kako o digitalni suverenosti razmišlja pravnica iz Poljske, ki se bojuje proti spletnim gigantom, raziskovalka iz Združenega kraljestva, ki presprašuje etično rabo tehnologij umetne inteligence, in študentka političnih ved, ki je egiptovsko revolucijo na Trgu Tahrir opazovala s svoje otroške sobe? Dorota Anna Glowacka, dr. Eleanor Drage in Alia ElKattan so se o svojem delu in digitalni suverenosti pogovarjale z Urško Henigman, ki je pripravila tokratno oddajo Intelekta. Panoptykon Foundation The Good Robot Survival of the best fit Gender Shades Technochauvinism Artificial Uninteligence: How Computers Misuderstand the World Meredith Broussard Coded Bias Social Warming

Episode 19: Climate Change, Vaccines, AI, and the Lure of Technochauvinism featuring Meredith BroussardThis month, Jack and Shobita discuss the recent IPCC report on climate change and the politics of vaccine "hesitancy", and puzzle over the lure of technological fixes to solve complex problems. And Jack speaks with Meredith Broussard, Associate Professor of the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University and Research Director, NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology, who has developed a new approach to understanding this puzzle: technochauvinism.- Jack Stilgoe (2013). "Why has geoengineering been legitimised by the IPCC?" The Guardian. September 27.- Meredith Broussard (2018). Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World. MIT Press.- Meredith Broussard (2019). "When Binary Code Won't Accommodate Nonbinary People." Slate. October 23.- Meredith Broussard (2019). "Letting Go of Technochauvinism." Public Books. June 17.- Meredith Broussard (forthcoming, 2023). More Than a Glitch: What Everyone Needs to Know About Making Technology Anti-Racist, Accessible, and Otherwise Useful to All. MIT Press.Study questions:1. Why are policymakers and publics so attracted to seemingly simple technological fixes?2. What are the costs of framing vaccine "hesitancy" or climate change as individual, moral problems?3. What is technochauvinism, and what's wrong with it?4. How might we approach artificial intelligence in a more socially responsible way?5. Should facial recognition technology be banned? Why or why not?

An MIT study showed that fake news travels six times faster on Twitter than real news. Different phenomenons occurring online are a powerful weapon and a fertile territory for spreading information based on a bias. Is AI a dehumanization weapon in the wrong hands or just a progressive tool? What is the cost of creating machine learning and similar algorithms? A grown and wild digital ecosystem based on an attention economy, engaging business model and behavioral advertising is editing reality thus becoming a vital policymaker. The utopic idea of the Internet and the existing perceptions of AI and robots, or as Meredith Broussard coined it Technochauvinism, is being challenged and rethought. Where lies a link between technology and justice? Is a relationship between competition and privacy laws on a good path? Why is ethics an important factor in the digital surroundings?In a new episode of the k/talks podcast with Ivana Bartoletti, a Technical Director at Deloitte and an internationally recognised thought leader in the field of responsible technology, we are discussing these and many more questions and concepts. Enjoy!More info about our guest at www.ivanabartoletti.co.uk Exclusively to our listeners, please see the discount code (KTALKS) for the purchase of the book “An Artificial Revolution” by Ivana Bartoletti (paperback, eBook or paperback and eBook bundle).This episode is in English.Books:Bartoletti, Ivana, “An Artificial Revolution”, The Indigo Press (2019) Broussard, Meredith, “Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World”, MIT Press (2018) Crawford, Kate, “Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence”, Yale University Press (2021)Dignum, Virginia, “Responsible Artificial Intelligence”, Springer (2019) Eubanks, Virginia, “Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor”, St Martin's Press (2018) Pasquale, Frank, “The Black Box Society”, Harvard University Press (2016) Veliz, Carissa, “Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data”, Transworld Publishers (2020)Movies:“Coded Bias“ – Director: Shalini Kantayya (2020) “Social Dilemma“ – Director: Jeff Orlowski (2020) “iHuman” – Director: Tonje Hessen Schei (2019)

  Bio Data journalist Meredith Broussard (@merbroussard) is an associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University and the author of “Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World.”. Her academic research focuses on artificial intelligence in investigative reporting, with a particular interest in using data analysis for social good. She is also interested in reproducible research issues and is developing methods for preserving innovative digital journalism projects in scholarly archives so that we can read today’s news on tomorrow’s computers. She is an affiliate faculty member at the Moore Sloan Data Science Environment at the NYU Center for Data Science, a 2019 Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow, and her work has been supported by the Institute of Museum & Library Services as well as the Tow Center at Columbia Journalism School. A former features editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer, she has also worked as a software developer at AT&T Bell Labs and the MIT Media Lab. Her features and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Slate, and other outlets.  Resources Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World (MIT Press, 2018)   News Roundup New York Daily News: Google trained facial recognition on ‘dark skinned’ homeless people The New York Daily News reports that Google apparently sent out contractors to pay homeless people $5 gift cards to train facial recognition on ‘dark skinned’ homeless people. The revelation comes after several former Google temp workers came forward. Google has acknowledged the program, though, and said its primary goal is to have a diverse and inclusive data set. Better security is also a goal, said the Google spokesperson, because the company is seeking to protect as many people as possible. But the workers took issue with some of the specific tactics they were asked to employ via their staffing agency, Randstad, under the direction of Google.  DNC goes after Facebook for enabling Trump The CEO of the Democratic National Committee, Seema Nanda, went on CNN last week and accused Facebook of catering to Trump by allowing him to “mislead the American people”. The previous week, Facebook refused to remove posts and ads from politicians even if they violate Facebook’s community rules. Also, Scott Lucas of BuzzFeed wrote a piece on Facebook’s growing popularity among older and more conservative voters, and whether Facebook may in fact be Trump’s secret weapon against Democrats in the 2020 election. Sen. Kamala Harris calls on Twitter to suspend Trump In a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Senator Kamala Harris, who is running for president, called on Twitter to suspend Trump’s Twitter account, citing the president’s attempts to “target, harass, and attempt to out” the first Ukraine whistleblower. She also referred to the president’s tweet stating that there would be a Civil War-like fracture, if he’s impeached, saying it was an incitement to violence. The president also referred to the impeachment investigation as a “coup” to which Harris retweeted with a comment saying “Hey Jack … time to do something about this.” But Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Tulsi Gabbard, both of whom are also running for president, disagreed that Twitter should suspend the president’s Twitter account. The two lawmakers said that “we can’t just cancel or shutdown or silence those who we disagree with or who hold different views or who say things even that we strongly disagree with or abhor.” Court of Appeals upholds the FCC’s net neutrality repeal The DC Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the FCC’s 2017 repeal of the 2015 net neutrality rules. The court sided with the FCC in saying that the internet isn’t a “telecommunications service”. But the court did say, however, that the FCC didn’t make a compelling argument that the FCC preempts state law, clearing the way for states to enact their own net neutrality rules, provided that they don’t undermine the repeal order. The court also said the FCC failed to properly consider the effect the rules would have on public safety, serving the underserved, and a wonky area of telecom law that deals with regulations around how ISPs should attach telecom equipment to existing telephone poles. DHS proposes rule to collect DNA evidence from detained migrants The Department of Homeland Security has proposed a rule that would allow the widespread collection of DNA from detained migrants. The Trump administration argues that the effort would aid the U.S. in identifying undocumented individuals. But policy experts cited in Roll Call are concerned that the program is just another way to target people of color.  Tim Cook urges Supreme Court to preserve DACA Tim Cook filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court urging the Court to protect the Deferred Action for Childhood (DACA) arrival program. If the Supreme Court rules against the program, hundreds of thousands of individuals who arrived in the U.S. as children, some of which work at Apple, could face deportation. Google can now recognize 9 “data-scarce” Indian languages Google researchers presented a model that recognizes speech in 9 “data scarce” Indian languages at Interspeech 2019 last week. The researches say the model allows for real-time speech recognition of all of the languages and does so better than other models. The languages include Hindi, Marathi, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Gujarati. Rep. Maxine Waters and House Finance Committee press Zuckerberg to testify The House Financial Services Committee, for which California Representative Maxine Waters serves as chair, is demanding that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testify regarding its plan to introduce its Libra cryptocurrency. The company has planned to send COO Sheryl Sandberg, but the Committee indicated that sending Sandberg is insufficient. Waters has called for Zuckerberg to testify by January. Microsoft reports hacking attempts linked to Iran Microsoft reported a hacking attempt linked to Iran on 2,700 email accounts, of which 241 were successful. Some of the accounts included presidential candidates, according to the Hill, which also noted that an undisclosed source indicated that the Trump campaign was among the targets. The Trump campaign has said that it does not have any evidence of an attack. UPS gets FAA approval for a drone fleet The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved UPS’ plan to operate an unlimited fleet of drones nationwide. The drones are permitted to operate at night, but not yet in populated areas. UPS has not announced plans to train existing drivers to pilot the drones.

Software developer and data journalist Meredith Broussard joins Megan Morrone to discuss her book Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World, which makes the case against the idea that technology can solve all our problems, touching on self-driving cars, the digital divide, the difference between AI and machine learning, and more. Host: Megan Morrone Guest: Meredith Broussard Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/triangulation.

Software developer and data journalist Meredith Broussard joins Megan Morrone to discuss her book Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World, which makes the case against the idea that technology can solve all our problems, touching on self-driving cars, the digital divide, the difference between AI and machine learning, and more. Host: Megan Morrone Guest: Meredith Broussard Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/triangulation.

Software developer and data journalist Meredith Broussard joins Megan Morrone to discuss her book Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World, which makes the case against the idea that technology can solve all our problems, touching on self-driving cars, the digital divide, the difference between AI and machine learning, and more. Host: Megan Morrone Guest: Meredith Broussard Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/triangulation.

Software developer and data journalist Meredith Broussard joins Megan Morrone to discuss her book Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World, which makes the case against the idea that technology can solve all our problems, touching on self-driving cars, the digital divide, the difference between AI and machine learning, and more. Host: Megan Morrone Guest: Meredith Broussard Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/triangulation.