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A simple line-based portrait of Milagros Miceli. The outlines are drawn in a black, shiny material that resembles metal. Besides the lines, everything, both inside and outside the portrait, is the same crimson red. Mila's hair is piled on her head in what looks like a pun, and she is smiling faintly. One earring is visible in her right ear, and she is looking to the left. In the lower right, the name of the podcast, Purple Code, is rendered in the same style of line.

Purple Code: Milagros Miceli

Mila joins the podcast to talk both about her life as a sociologist and computer scientist researching data workers, but also her experience as a woman, migrant, and mother and containing those identities alongside and within her work.

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Logo for the Tech Won't Save Us podcast features the podcast name in a distorted-looking font reminiscent of early computers. The background is bright crimson red, with images of binary code 0s and 1s forming a faint wave shape in lighter red.

Tech Won't Save Us: Don't Fall for the AI Hype

Timnit joins Paris Marx to talk about misleading framings of artificial intelligence, her experience of getting fired by Google in a very public way, and why we need to avoid getting distracted by all the hype around ChatGPT and AI image tools. (TWSU's most-listened to episode of 2023!)

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Reimagining the Internet: Timnit Gebru Looks at Corporate AI and Sees a Lot of Bad Science

Timnit talks to the UMass-Amherst based podcast about how we can build just, useful machine learning tools while saying no to harmful AI.

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Screenshot from a Zoom call with three participants. Upper left, Luiza Jarovsky, a white woman with long brown hair. She is looking at the camera with a questioning face. In the background is a white wall with several pieces of art. In the upper right, Alex Hanna, an Arab woman with curly medium-long black hair. She holds up one hand with her index finger midway through wagging. She wears a gray blazer and hoop earrings, and behind her is a white wall covered in art. On the bottom, Emily M. Bender, a white woman with medium length curly brown hair. She wears glasses, a black shirt and a yellow scarf, and is resting her chin on her hand and smiling.

The Privacy Whisperer: Understanding LLMs and Breaking Down the Hype

Alex and Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 co-host Emily M. Bender talk to Luiza Jarovsky about the dangers of overhyped language models and chatbots, and the privacy and fairness implications of badly applied AI technologies.

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Deep Learning Indaba 2023 Keynote Address

Timnit describes the #TeamHuman, community rooted AI research philosophy.

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Understanding Bias in Artificial Intelligence

Dylan speaks about how AI encodes human biases at Seattle's Museum of History and Industry.

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FAccT'23 Keynote: The Humans Behind the Intelligence: Speaking with Data Workers

Alex moderated and Krystal participated in this keynote talk at the 2023 ACM conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency.

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Freedom Unfinished: Algorithmic Injustice

Alex joins ACLUM executive director Carol Rose and Technology for Liberty program director Kade Crockford to talk about how algorithms can deepen existing structural inequities and how both AI and tech writ large can be built more inclusively.

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Imagining Otherwise: Asmelash Teka Hadgu

Asme talks about his work on AI ethics for DAIR and language technology for Lesan in this lecture series for the Architectural Association School of Architecture.

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A promotional image for the Unsettling Knowledge Inequities Podcast. A square image featuring three circular headshots on a lavender-colored background. On the upper left: Dr. Alex Hanna, an Arab woman, looking into the camera, wearing a blue headwrap, a pair of earrings and black blazer. On the upper right: Photo of Dylan Baker, light skinned man in his 20s with short straight brown hair (with blue streaks), wearing a green sweater and colorful shirt (mostly black) with collars, underneath. Background is greenery. In the center on the bottom: A picture of Dr. Milagros Miceli looking into the camera, wearing a pink blazer and white shirt. And a necklace with a pink stone. Background is dark pink.

AI and Automating Knowledge Inequity

Alex, Mila and Dylan join the Unsettling Knowledge Inequities podcast to talk about the implications of widespread, uncritical use of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, particularly in replicating and worsening existing inequities.

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The Fight for “Ethical AI” and the Hidden Laborers Behind Artificial Intelligence

Timnit and Adrienne talk to KQED Forum about the exploited workers whose underpaid and precarious labor powers artificial intelligence technologies.

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