Can you ever have so much data that it becomes unmanageable? Are there ways make the way you use data more effective? In this episode, Seth talks to Lauren Maffeo about how to design a data governance framework that will best suit your needs.
Lauren is a service designer at Steampunk, a human-centered design firm serving the federal government. She is also a founding editor of Springer’s AI and Ethics journal and an area editor for Data and Policy, an open access journal with Cambridge University Press. She also teaches courses on design at George Washington University. She is the author of the book, Data Governance from the Ground Up.
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Should you use dating apps? Episode 25 teaser
We had a chance to partner with After Dinner Conversation, an online ethics magazine. The magazine hosts stories that center around an ethical ambiguity, with discussion questions following each story.
How do you personally navigate situations in which you can’t tell immediately if a decision will be right or wrong? In what situations do you find yourself unsure of what choice to make? How has technology impacted the situations that you find yourself feeling this way?
Full episode here:
https://digethix.org/20-exploring-ethical-problems-through-stories-with-after-dinner-conversations/
The main topic of this episode is Jacob Boss’s research on transhumanism. Transhumanism is a movement of people dedicated to using technology to transform humanity and to radically change the human condition. Jacob’s specific area of research is on a group of transhumanists known as Grinders. This group is highly interested in body modification through do-it-yourself science and technology.
What is body modification? What does it mean to have body autonomy in an era of powerful technology? How will our ideas of self-expression change? How are grassroots movements like the grinders related to more corporatized movements within transhumanism itself? How far should we go in pursuit of new technologies that may relieve our pains and illnesses?
#tech #ethics #podcast #humanaugmentation #bodymodification #transhumanism
Seth Villegas interviews Timothée Mathon. Timothée is a French freelance artist. He has experience working as a Concept Artist, Art Director and Illustrator for the AAA Videogame and Movie industry (Ubisoft, Quantic Dream, Netflix, and Net Ease Games). He designed a collection of Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs) and heavily advocates for the independence of artists in the industry.
The key questions for this episode are: what is radical about non-fungible tokens as a technology? How can NFT change the way that art and art ownership function? What new options might they give to artists?
https://digethix.org/digethix-14-nfts-and-the-future-of-art-with-timothee-mathon/
#nftart #NFTCommunity #nftartist #podcast #techpodcast #ethicspodcast
Seth sat down with Dr. Emmanuelle Burton to talk about ethics education for CS students and how reaching more science fiction might help us to pay better attention to our circumstances. How do we become the right sort of people to create worthwhile technologies? How do we prevent these technologies from distorting us and our relationships? What ethical skills will be useful for the next generation of technologists?
https://digethix.org/digethix-13-exploring-attention-and-virtue-through-science-fiction-with-emanuelle-burton/
#ethics #dataethics #ethicspodcast #AIEthics #education #sciencefiction
Seth Villegas and Bernd Dürrwächter discuss the role of CAPTCHAs and bots in our automated systems and the potential obstacle they pose to people making informed decisions.
The key questions for this episode are: How can companies properly inform their users so that they can make informed decisions about what they are doing? Why is it that we have to prove to your technical systems that we are human? How should we think about the tradeoffs between security and convenience?
https://digethix.org/podcast-12-captchas-bots-and-informed-consent-with-bernd-durrwachter/
#dataethics #AIEthics #podcast #MachineLearning
Seth Villegas sat down with associate provost Azer Bestavros to talk about Boston University's new Computing and Data Sciences unit. They talk about massive shared computing, privacy preserving analytics, and the history of computer science as a whole. How can computational methods and technologies be used to address social challenges? How might data be integrated into other academic disciplines? What role do computer scientists have to play in larger research questions?
https://digethix.org/podcast-11-azer-bestavros/
#datascience #dataethics #podcast #ethics
Season 2 will be starting up next Wednesday! We are starting strong with an interview with Boston University Associate Provost Azer Bestavros, who is heading up the new Computing and Data Sciences Unit!
#datascience #dataethics #techethics #podcast #bostonuniversity
Episode 8 is live! Seth Villegas sits down with Bernd Dürrwächter to talk about ethics education for technologists. They highlight how difficult it is to come to a consensus around values. Given the value problem, how can a podcast like DIGETHIX make concrete suggestions? How can public discussion be used in conjunction with education to better equip the next generation of technologists?
https://digethix.org/podcast-8-critical-thinking-and-the-process-of-ethics-in-technology/
#podcast #ethicspodcast #ethics #techethics #technology #dataethics
