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https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ngwwj-1b196bd Today I’m speaking with Dana Mazia, General Manager of the Bright Initiative by Bright Data, which provides nonprofits, academic institutions, and public bodies with pro bono access to public web data and expertise. Dana is a lawyer, social entrepreneur, and World Economic Forum Global Shaper with more than 14 years of experience across technology,…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-i63e5-1b04516 Globally, 8 billion people will experience trauma in their lifetime. Ninety-three percent of those in crisis will not receive adequate care. The barriers are familiar: cost, stigma, language, geography, workforce shortages. What is less familiar is someone actually building technology to address all of them at once, starting from survivor experience rather than market…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-mtqg7-1b03778 My guest today is Avi Tuschman, founder and CEO of Crickit.ai, an AI tool that live fact-checks social media videos. It’s a visionary technology that analyzes and verifies claims made on videos shared on social media platforms in real time. Crickit.ai aims to help people make smarter, healthier decisions about what they accept as…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-89mc3-1b024d4 After a year away writing my book, I’m back with more of the conversations that got me through it — starting with Miranda Bogen, founding Director of the Center for Democracy & Technology‘s AI Governance Lab and CDT’s Chief Technologist. Miranda has spent her career at the intersection of AI, policy, and civil rights…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-tcmpd-1726126 In this episode of the show, I speak with Tom Coughlin, the standing President and CEO of IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. We discuss the IEEE’s vision of technological innovatinon, what it really means to “benefit humanity” through tech, and how the tech…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-k7bfm-1717a12 Today we are bringing you a conversation featuring one technologist who is rethinking and reshaping social media—to build platforms that spark empathy and joy, not division and hate. Vardon Hamdiu is the co-founder and head of Sparkable, a young nonprofit organization that builds a social media platform aimed at bridging divides. Growing up immersed…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yqia9-170e9f2 In this episode of “Technically Human,” I bring you a conversation with one of the great thinkers working at the intersection of ethics and technology, Professor Todd Presner, for an episode about his new book, Ethics of the Algorithm: Digital Humanities and Holocaust Memory. In the conversation, we talk about new direction in Holocaust…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-dhhg8-16fe1a1 In this week’s episode of the show, I speak with Daniel Kelley about the culture of online gaming, and the unique set of challenges in the gaming space, related to hate, harassment, and extremism. We talk about the possibilities, and limitations, of regulating that space, and what the landscape of gaming might foretell about…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ijcxh-16d9b09 Hi Technically Human listeners! Welcome back to another episode of the show. Today I’m sitting down with Alva Noë. We talk about his new book, The Entanglement, and the relationship between technology, philosophy, and art. In The Entanglement, Professor Noë explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, arguing that we have greatly underestimated what…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-pheq2-16e3cea In this episode of the show, I speak with Dr. Thomas Mullaney about his new book, The Chinese Computer. In the book, Dr. Mullaney outlines the history and evolution of Chinese language computing technology, and explores how the technology of the QWERTY keyboard changed this history of computing. We talk about how the structure…