The Robots Are Coming

Today our guest is Ahmed Ahmed, an undergraduate at Stanford of the same major as Michael (MCS). Ahmed is an ethnic Arabic born in Sudan, lived in Qatar before emigrating to the US. His diverse life experiences shaped some unique perspectives on Black Lives Matter, Blacks In Tech, affirmative action amongst various other issues which we discussed. He is a role model within the black in tech commun...

Facial recognition has been deployed to improve the convenience of our day-to-day lives, from identifying your friends on pictures shared on social media, unlocking your phone or door, validating identity at ATM machines, and enforcing building security. However, every coin has two sides, and it can be argued the other side is much darker than meets the eye. What is the price we pay for a little e...

On this episode, we interview Aarika Samone Rhodes, a devoted elementary school teacher and passionate member of the #YangGang . We talk about innovative ideas on education, police reform, and the future of ed-tech.

On this episode, we interviewed Dakota (scientist/activist) and Giselle (a pre-law student). We talked about the future of tech, climate change, and their values.

On this episode, we will being have a conversation about Big Tech, and censorship, especially in relation to data mining, and encryption, with the relevance of acts like S.3398, the "Earn It" Act possibly threatening individuals rights to speak out on various social media platforms, especially as it pertains to Black organizing and narratives. Internet censorship is a huge deal, especially as it p...

Reverend Wendy Hamilton was formerly a Spiritual and Cultural Surrogate of presidential candidate Andrew Yang and is currently a counselor based in Washington DC. Rev. Hamilton became a Yang supporter after she read an article the candidate penned for The New York Times called “The Robots Are Coming.”, Yang spoke about the consequences of automation and its impact on job opportunities. We brought...

We had a special guest: Ben Barlett who’s a council member in Berkeley City Council, District 3. What’s really special about Ben is that he is both a tech and political leader focused not only on activism but also using innovation to drive 21st century economic development with job opportunities for all Californians. We contextualized George Floyd’s death in a long continuum of economic injustice....

Michael and Ken are sophomores from Stanford and UC Berkeley, respectively. While there has been a lot of academic discussion around the impact and challenges of automation, especially in the Silicon Valley, it was only recently that these issues have entered the mainstream. Automation is no longer the Terminator’s and Transformers of science-fiction. It’s already here and radically changing socie...