Author: DebDonig

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-kpydq-14c460f Hi Technically Human listeners! I’m on vacation this week, and our team has pulled one of our favorite interviews, and definitely hands down our funniest from our archives to share with you—an episode with Dan Lyons on hat makes Silicon Valley funny–and how that humor gets at some of the deeply sobering realities of…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2b845-14ba369 In this episode of Technically Human, I sit down with Dr. Julie Albright to talk about her new book: Left to Their Own Devices: How Digital Natives Are Reshaping the American Dream. We talk about the way that digital culture is changing the American Dream for the next generation, we discuss how the internet is…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tt2c3-14acfb9 Earlier this year, Consumer Reports, in collaboration with the Kapor Center, debuted “Bad Input,” three short films that set out to explore and to create public awareness about how biases in algorithms/data sets result in unfair practices for communities of color, often without their knowledge. In this episode of the show, I talk to…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wuism-14a5864 In today’s episode, I sit down with Vinhcent Le, Senior Legal Counsel of Tech Equity at the Greenlining Institute, an organization that works towards a future where communities of color can build wealth, live in healthy places filled with economic opportunity, and are ready to meet the challenges posed by climate change. We talk…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ietgf-149ec3b In this episode of the show, I continue my deep dive into data, human values, and governance with an interview featuring Lauren Maffeo. We talk about the future of data governance, the possibilities of, and the catastrophe that Lauren thinks our society may need to experience in order to turn the corner on an…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rtb6a-1493a79 We’re back, after a long and restful break, with a brand new season of Technically Human! In our first episode of the season, I am joined by a guest cohost, Dr. Morgan Ames, for a conversation with Janet Haven, Executive Director of Data and Society. We talk about the movement to root data and…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rtb6a-1493a79 We’re back, after a long and restful break, with a brand new season of Technically Human! In our first episode of the season, I am joined by a guest cohost, Dr. Morgan Ames, for a conversation with Janet Haven, Executive Director of Data and Society. We talk about the movement to root data and…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-zfut6-1434e62 Welcome to the final episode of the “Technically Human” season! We’re ending the season with an episode of the 22 lessons on ethics and technology series, with a conversation featuring Dr. John Williams about the global imagination of tech. Dr. John Williams is a professor of English Literature at Yale University. His work is…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-zautu-1424015 These past few weeks, as violence and instability have escalated in Sudan, I’ve had one particular conversation on my mind, an episode of the show that I recorded a few years back with Mohamed Abubakr. In April of this year, clashes broke out in cities, with the fighting concentrated around the capital city of…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-92mjq-141bc6e Today’s episode focuses on the growing field of compliance and regulation. Compliance is a field that is growing in importance at both national and international level. In the EU where emerging ethical principles governing tech have led governments to pass new laws, and harms caused by the tech industry have provoked increasingly sharp public…