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Bridging The Divide w/ Issie Lapowsky
There are oceans of research papers digging into the various harms of online platforms. Researchers are asking urgent questions such as how hate speech and misinformat...
Why was the CEO of Telegram just arrested? w/ Mallory Knodel
Last week, CEO of Telegram Pavel Durov landed in France and was immediately detained. The details of his arrest are still emerging; he is being charged for being compl...
Exhibit X: What did we learn?
That’s the END of Exhibit X folks; if you’ve been following along, congratulations on choosing to become smarter. If not that’s okay, consider this episode a delicious...
Exhibit X: The Community
What makes an expert witness? How does a socio-technical researcher become one? Now that we’re the end of this miniseries, we might finally be ready to answer these qu...
Exhibit X: The Courts
Imagine: something horrible has happened and the only evidence you have is a video posted online. Can you submit it into evidence in court? Well, it’s complicated.In p...
Exhibit X: The Litigators
Often it feels as though the cases and lawsuits brought against big tech firms are continuously piling up, but there never seems to be any resulting justice or resolut...
Exhibit X: The Whistleblower
In part 2 of Exhibit X, Alix interviewed Frances Haugen, who In 2021 blew the whistle on Meta; they were sitting on the knowledge that their products were harmful to k...
Exhibit X: Tech and Tobacco
Here is something you’re probably tired of hearing: Big Tech is responsible for a bottomless brunch of societal harms. And they are not being held accountable. Right n...
New mini-series: Exhibit X
In the Exhibit X series Alix and Prathm sink their fingernails into the tangled universe of litigation and Big Tech; how have the courts held Big Tech firms accountabl...
What the FAccT? Evidence of bias. Now what?
In part four of our FAccT deep dive, Alix joins Marta Ziosi and Dasha Pruss to discuss their paper “Evidence of What, for Whom? The Socially Contested Role of Algorith...
What the FAccT? First law, bad law
In this episode, we speak with Lara Groves and Jacob Metcalf at the seventh annual FAccT conference in Rio de Janeiro. In part four of our FAccT deep dive, Alix joins...
What the FAccT?: Abandoning Algorithms
In this episode, we speak with Nari Johnson and Sanika Moharana at this year’s FAccT conference in Rio de Janeiro. In part two of our FAccT deep dive, Alix joins Nari ...
What the FAccT?: Reformers and Radicals
In part 1 of our FAccT conference deep dive, Alix Dunn sits down with co-host Andrew Strait from the Ada Lovelace Institute to talk about the history of FAccT and some...
Protesting Project Nimbus: employee organising to end Google’s contract with Israel w/ Dr.Kate Sim
In this episode, we speak with Dr. Kate Sim, one of the core organisers of the Google Worker Sit-In Against Project Nimbus. Dr. Kate Sim was recently fired, alongside ...
The Human in the Loop: What's it like to work in the AI supply chain?
In this episode, we talk about the kinds of jobs that are being created as AI systems grow, how those jobs are evolving, what the labour conditions of those jobs are l...
2024 Elections: Is AI going to wreak havoc?
In this episode, we walk through how misinformation and disinformation has been used in past elections to impact outcomes, where we think AI might make a material diff...
