The Radical AI Podcast

In this special episode of The Radical AI Podcast Dylan and Jess pull back the curtain to reflect on six months of the show! From qualitative research to ontological horseplay - this episode has it all! Full show notes for this episode can be found at radicalai.org .  If you enjoy this episode please make sure to subscribe, submit a rating and review, and connect with us on twitter at twitter.com/...

What is media integrity? What is media manipulation? What do you need to know about fake news? To answer these questions and more we welcome to the show Claire Leibowicz and Emily Saltz -- two representatives from the Partnership on AI’s AI and Media Integrity team. Claire Leibowicz is a Program Lead directing the strategy and execution of projects in the Partnership on AI’s AI and Media Integrity...

What should you know about the state of surveillance in the world today? What can we do as consumers to stop unintentionally contributing to surveillance? The Facial Recognition industry had a reckoning after the murder of George Floyd - are things getting better? To answer these questions we welcome Liz O'Sullivan to the show. Liz O'Sullivan is the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project's tech...

What are the limitations of using checklists for fairness? What are the alternatives? How do we effectively design ethical AI systems around our collective values?  To answer these questions we welcome Dr. Michael Madaio to the show. Madaio is a postdoc at Microsoft Research working with the FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics in AI) research group. Michael works at the inters...

What is the tech to prison pipeline? How can we build infrastructures of resistance to it? What role does academia play in perpetuating carceral technology? To answer these questions we welcome to the show Sonja Solomun and Audrey Beard, two representatives from the Coalition for Critical Technology.  Sonja Solomun works on the politics of media and technology, including the history of digital pla...

How can we inform and inspire the next generation of responsible technologists and changemakers? How do you get involved as someone new to the responsible AI field? In partnership with All Tech is Human we present this Livestreamed conversation featuring Rumman Chowdhury  (Responsible AI Lead at Accenture) and  Yoav Schlesinger  (Principal, Ethical AI Practice at Salesforce). This conversation is...

What are current attitudes towards AI Ethics from within the tech industry? How can we make computer science a more inclusive discipline for women? What does it mean to democratize AI? Why should we? How can we? To answer these questions and more we welcome Dr. Anima Anandkumar to the show.  Anima holds dual positions in academia and industry. In academia - she is a professor in the Caltech Comput...

What are the differences between explainability, intelligibility, interpretability, and transparency in Responsible AI? What is human-centered machine learning? Should we be regulating machine learning transparency?    To answer these questions and more we welcome Dr. Jenn Wortman Vaughan to the show.   Jenn is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. She has been leading efforts at Mi...

How should diplomacy and international cooperation adjust to the significant global power that major tech companies wield?  In partnership with All Tech is Human we present this Livestreamed conversation featuring Alexis Wichowski (adjunct associate professor in Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, teaching in the Technology, Media, and Communications specialization) a...

What is precarious work and how does it impact the psychology of labor? How might platforms like Uber and Lyft be negatively impacting their workers? How do gig economy apps control the lives of those who use them for work?   To answer these questions and more we welcome Dr. Veena Dubal to the show.   Veena is a professor of Law at UC Hastings. Veena received her J.D. and PhD from UC Berkeley, whe...

Where is the limit in the use of technology to solve societal problems? How can Social Work utilize AI to address social injustice? To answer these questions and more we welcome Dr. Eric Rice to the show.    Eric is an associate professor and the founding co-director of the USC Center for Artificial Intelligence in Society, a joint venture of the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work and t...

What is AI for Social Good?  In this special bonus panel episode on AI for Social Good 101, we interviewed Dr. Anamika Barman-Adhikari, Dr. Fei Fang, and Dr. Amulya Yadav.   Anamika Barman-Adhikari is an Associate Professor of social work at the University of Denver. She received her Ph. D. in Social Work from University of Southern California. Fei Fang is an Assistant Professor at the Institute f...

What is IEEE and what is their “ethically aligned design” initiative? How can positive visions for the future help us create better technology? What do kindness and wellbeing have to do with AI Ethics? To answer these questions and more we welcome John C. Havens to the show.  John is the current Executive Director of the Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems at The Inst...

How can we reduce data discrimination & algorithmic bias that perpetuate gender and racial inequalities?   In partnership with All Tech is Human we present this Livestreamed conversation featuring Safiya Noble (Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the Department of Information Studies and author of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism)...

In what way does technology make us more or less visible to each other? What is Ghost Work and how might it impact the future of work? How can AI Ethicists relate more intimately with compassion? To answer these questions and more we welcome Dr. Mary L. Gray to the show.    Dr. Mary L. Gray is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman...

Happy Three Months of the Radical AI Podcast! In this minisode we share the compiled advice given from our guests over our first 18 interviews, celebrate the Radical AI Community, and give thanks for the journey thus far.  Thank you so much for your support!  As always, show notes can be found on radicalai.org - along with a written blogpost with extended quotes of advice taken from our conversati...

In this episode we interview the interdisciplinary research team of Calvin Liang, Jevan Hutson, and Os Keyes around the motivation and research behind their paper: "Surveillance, Stigma & Sociotechnical Design for HIV". This paper analyzes the approaches that 49 online dating and hookup platforms have taken when designing for HIV disclosure. Calvin, Jevan, and Os point to bottom-up, communal, and...

How can we ensure that our technological systems do not reproduce existing inequalities? In partnership with All Tech is Human we present this Livestreamed conversation featuring Mutale  Nkonde (CEO of AI for the People & fellow at the Digital Society Lab at Stanford) & Charlton  McIlwain (author of Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, From the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter, as well as V...

How can Science Fiction be used to get the public involved in the AI Ethics conversation? What are religious studies and how can they relate to AI? Why is it important to distinguish between Science Fiction and Science Fact when it comes to the future of AI? To answer these questions and more we welcome Dr. Beth Singler to the show.  Dr. Beth Singler is a Junior Research Fellow in Artificial Intel...

What are the societal impacts and ethics of Natural Language Processing (or NLP)? How can language be a form of power? How can we effectively teach ethics in the NLP classroom? How can we promote healthy interdisciplinary collaboration in the development of NLP products? To answer these questions and more we welcome Dr. Emily M. Bender to the show. Dr. Emily M. Bender researches linguistics, compu...

Sponsored by Ethical Intelligence this bonus episode features a presentation delivered by Renee Cummings as a workshop given on 06/24/20. We also welcome Ethical Intelligence CEO Olivia Gambelin to the show as a guest host.  Renée Cummings is a criminologist and international criminal justice consultant who specializes in Artificial Intelligence (AI); ethical AI, bias in AI, diversity and inclusio...

What does it mean that IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, and others have distanced themselves from developing facial recognition technology and providing facial recognition data to vendors? Should you be skeptical? Where is the hope? To answer these questions and more we welcome Deb Raji to the show.  Deb is a tech fellow at the AI Now Institute Working on critical perspectives to evaluation practice in AI,...

What are the ethics of emoji design and why does it matter? What are some of the ethical concerns we should have about chatbots and virtual assistants? How can these technologies perpetuate racial and gender stereotypes? To answer these questions and more The Radical AI Podcast welcomes Dr. Miriam Sweeney to the show.    Dr. Miriam Sweeney is an assistant professor in the School of Library & Infor...

In this Minisode hosts Dylan and Jess reflect on current events, systemic racism in tech and beyond, how to stay connected to the deeply systemic work that is needed to uproot colonialism, and much more.  Every month The Radical AI Podcast releases a Minisode reviewing the previous month's episodes and updating listeners on insider news from the Radical AI world.  As always we invite you to please...

How can we claim agency over data systems to fight for racial justice? What is Data for Black Lives? How can you join the movement? To answer these questions and more we welcome Yeshi Milner to the show.   Yeshi Milner is the co-founder and executive director of Data for Black Lives. Raised in Miami, FL, Yeshi began organizing against the school-to-prison pipeline at Power U Center for Social Chan...