The Ethics of Vocal Biomarkers

Hidden away in our voices are signals that may hold clues to how we’re doing, what we’re feeling and even what’s going on with our physical health. Now, AI systems tasked with analyzing these signals are moving into healthcare.

We meet:

Lina Lakoczky-Torres, student at Menlo College

Angela Schmiede, Vice President of Menlo College.

Grace Chang, CEO of Kintsugi

David Liu, CEO of Sonde Health

Liam Kaufman, former CEO of Winterlight Labs. 

Margaret Mitchell, Chief Ethics Scientist of Hugging Face

Bjoern Schuller, professor of artificial intelligence at Imperial College London

Credits:

This episode was reported by Hilke Schellmann, produced by Jennifer Strong, Emma Cillekens and Anthony Green, edited by Mat Honan and mixed by Garret Lang with original music by Garret Lang and Jacob Gorski. Artwork by Stephanie Arnett. Special thanks to the Knight Science folks at MIT for their support with this reporting.