Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchUnexpected History of Computing with Mar Hicks
In this episode, we talk to Mar Hicks, an Associate Professor of Data Science at the University of Virginia and author of Programmed Inequality: How …
3 years ago
Hot Take: Twitter is to X as Barbie is to Ken
Welcome to this week’s Hot Take, where your hosts Kerry and Eleanor give their candid opinion on the latest in tech news. This week they discuss the …
3 years, 1 month ago
Buddhist Approaches to Machine Consciousness with Peter Hershock
We talk to Peter Hershock, director of the Asian Studies Development Program and coordinator of the Humane AI Initiative at the East-West Center in …
3 years, 1 month ago
Hot Take: Detecting Sexuality with AI is Fake Science
In this week’s Good Robot Hot Takes, Kerry and Eleanor talk about a group of scientists in Zurich that tried to measure a correlation between brain a…
3 years, 1 month ago
Worker Surveillance and the US Trucking Industry with Karen Levy
In this episode we chat to Karen Levy, Associate Professor of Information Science at Cornell University and author of Data Driven: Truckers, Technolo…
3 years, 1 month ago
Hot Take: Can AI De-Bias Hiring?
Welcome to our third episode of the Good Robot Hot Takes. Every two weeks Kerry and Eleanor will be giving their hot take on some of the biggest issu…
3 years, 2 months ago
Art, Digital Archives and Activism with Ofri Cnaani
In this episode we chat with Ofri Cnaani, an artist and associate lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. Artists are doing amazing things in t…
3 years, 2 months ago
Hot Take: Most AI Scientists in Films Suck
Welcome to our second episode of the Good Robot Hot Takes, where every week Kerry and Eleanor give you their spicy opinions about top issues in tech.…
3 years, 2 months ago
Full Stack Feminism and the Digital Humanities with Caroline Bassett and Sharon Webb
From using computers to process the work of Thomas Aquinas to using facial recognition to compare portraits of Shakespeare, computational techniques …
3 years, 2 months ago
Hot Take: The Future of Life's Call for a Pause on 'Giant AI' - Doomsday or Distraction?
Welcome to our new format: The Good Robot Hot Takes! In these fun, lively, conversational episodes, we (Eleanor and Kerry) discuss some of the bigges…
3 years, 3 months ago