Podcast: Radio Times (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Workplace surveillance: how your boss is spying on youPub date: 2022-08-24It’s called “tattleware” or “bossware” – software that companies are increasingly using to monitor their workers in the office and at home. Employers can track keystrokes and mouse clicks, listen to and read conversations, and use a computer’s webcam to take photos—sometimes every minute. Use of these surveillance technologies by businesses increased during

Podcast: Media Futures PodcastEpisode: Spotlight: Simon TaylorPub date: 2022-08-21In this spotlight episode of the Media Futures Podcast, Simon Taylor joins Associate Professor Tanja Dreher to discuss his PhD research on histories of artificial intelligence and much more. This episode is part of a six week series of short interviews spotlighting the work of Media Futures Hub researchers. Based at UNSW Sydney on unceded Bedegal Country, the Media Futures Hub works at the intersection of media and

Podcast: All Things Policy (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Humans of AI - The Women Labour behind Data AnnotationPub date: 2022-08-26In this episode, Carl Jaison speaks to Karishma Mehrotra, Journalist & Fulbright Scholar on her story about women from Ranchi and Mannarkad who play an unglamorous but critical role in the machine learning pipeline.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Takshashila Institution, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or

Podcast: Media Futures PodcastEpisode: Spotlight: Simon TaylorPub date: 2022-08-21In this spotlight episode of the Media Futures Podcast, Simon Taylor joins Associate Professor Tanja Dreher to discuss his PhD research on histories of artificial intelligence and much more. This episode is part of a six week series of short interviews spotlighting the work of Media Futures Hub researchers. Based at UNSW Sydney on unceded Bedegal Country, the Media Futures Hub works at the intersection of media and

Podcast: All Things Policy (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Humans of AI - The Women Labour behind Data AnnotationPub date: 2022-08-26India is one of the world’s largest markets for data annotation labour. As of 2021, there were roughly 70,000 people working in the field. Interestingly, most of the labour comes from first generation women workers in Indian towns and villages. In this episode, Carl Jaison speaks to Karishma Mehrotra, Journalist & Fulbright Scholar on her story about

Podcast: The Radical AI Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Digital Lethargy with Tung-Hui HuPub date: 2022-08-31What is Digital Lethargy?  How can we adapt to an age of disconnection? How can art act as a force of resistance? In this episode we interview Tung-Hui Hu about digital exhaustion in the modern day, and his new upcoming book from MIT Press: “Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection.” Tung-Hui is an associate professor of English at the University

Podcast: The Radical AI Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Digital Lethargy with Tung-Hui HuPub date: 2022-08-31What is Digital Lethargy?  How can we adapt to an age of disconnection? How can art act as a force of resistance? In this episode we interview Tung-Hui Hu about digital exhaustion in the modern day, and his new upcoming book from MIT Press: “Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection.” Tung-Hui is an associate professor of English at the University

Podcast: Pondering AI (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: The Philosophy of AI with Dr. Mark CoeckelberghPub date: 2022-08-03Dr. Mark Coeckelbergh is a Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology, a member of the High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (EC) and the Austrian Council on Robotics and AI.In this insightful discussion, Mark explains why AI systems are not merely tools or strictly rational endeavors. He describes the challenges created when AI systems imitate

Podcast: The Radical AI Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Should the Government use AI? with Shion GuhaPub date: 2022-07-27How does the government use algorithms? How do algorithms impact social services, policing, and other social services? And where does Silicon Valley fit in? In this episode we interview Shion Guha about how governments adopt algorithms to enforce public policy. Shion is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information at University of Toronto. His

Podcast: Pondering AI (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: The Philosophy of AI with Dr. Mark CoeckelberghPub date: 2022-08-03Dr. Mark Coeckelbergh is a Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology, a member of the High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (EC) and the Austrian Council on Robotics and AI.In this insightful discussion, Mark explains why AI systems are not merely tools or strictly rational endeavors. He describes the challenges created when AI systems imitate

Podcast: The Radical AI Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Should the Government use AI? with Shion GuhaPub date: 2022-07-27How does the government use algorithms? How do algorithms impact social services, policing, and other social services? And where does Silicon Valley fit in? In this episode we interview Shion Guha about how governments adopt algorithms to enforce public policy. Shion is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information at University of Toronto. His

Podcast: Radio Times (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: The women who programmed the first modern computerPub date: 2022-08-02During WWII, a top-secret project to build the first programmable digital computer was underway at the University of Pennsylvania. The U.S. Army was looking for a faster way to run complicated ballistic trajectory calculations which, at the time, took a group of women mathematicians 30-40 hours to complete. The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer,

Podcast: Radio Times (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: The women who programmed the first modern computerPub date: 2022-08-02During WWII, a top-secret project to build the first programmable digital computer was underway at the University of Pennsylvania. The U.S. Army was looking for a faster way to run complicated ballistic trajectory calculations which, at the time, took a group of women mathematicians 30-40 hours to complete. The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer,

Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: James Steinhoff, "Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)Pub date: 2022-07-27Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) argues that Marxist theory is essential for understanding the contemporary industrialization of the form of artificial intelligence (AI) called

Podcast: New Books in Sociology (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: James Steinhoff, "Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)Pub date: 2022-07-27Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) argues that Marxist theory is essential for understanding the contemporary industrialization of the form of artificial intelligence (AI) called

Podcast: What Next | Daily News and Analysis (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: TBD | Smart City: Dumb Idea?Pub date: 2022-07-24Toronto’s Quayside project is a telling example of how smart cities have failed. Could it also show how to make them better?Guest: Ben Green, Jennifer KeesmaatHost: Lizzie O'Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate Podcasts, which is the property of its owner and not

Podcast: Digital Planet (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Grassroots data – holding the powerful to accountPub date: 2022-07-26Open source investigators We live in an age where there is data on almost everything, and a large chunk of it is publicly available. You only need to know where to look. There are many investigators on the internet that are gathering Open Source Intelligence, or OSINT for short, and conduct research and verification, much of it focussed on war zones. The most

Podcast: What Next | Daily News and Analysis (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: TBD | Smart City: Dumb Idea?Pub date: 2022-07-24Toronto’s Quayside project is a telling example of how smart cities have failed. Could it also show how to make them better?Guest: Ben Green, Jennifer KeesmaatHost: Lizzie O'Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate Podcasts, which is the property of its owner and not

Podcast: Digital Planet (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Grassroots data – holding the powerful to accountPub date: 2022-07-26Open source investigators We live in an age where there is data on almost everything, and a large chunk of it is publicly available. You only need to know where to look. There are many investigators on the internet that are gathering Open Source Intelligence, or OSINT for short, and conduct research and verification, much of it focussed on war zones. The most

Podcast: Darts and Letters (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: EP61: Enter the Zuckerverse (ft. Sandrine Han and Ian Bogost)Pub date: 2022-07-15 The term “metaverse” was coined in a 1993 science fiction novel. Since then, it’s grown from a dystopian literary concept to a reality that corporations want to sell you. Strap on some VR goggles and escape your tired analog life! Except that the systemic issues we already have seem to be creeping into the metaverse, too. As