Artificiality: Being with AI

In this episode, we open with a chat about Facebook’s acquisition of GIPHY and what the company may be trying to learn with its AI (hint: hidden meanings) and then we move on to a great conversation with Maria Axente of PWC about ethical AI at PWC and in her non-profit work with groups like UNICEF. If you’re enjoying our podcast, please share with your friends, subscribe and give us a like—we’d appreciate your help spreading the word. About Artficiality from Helen & Dave Edwards: Artificiality is a research and services business founded in 2019 to help people make sense of artificial intelligence and complex change. Our weekly publication provides thought-provoking ideas, science reviews, and market research and our monthly research releases provides leaders with actionable intelligence and insights for applying AI in their organizations. We provide research-based and expert-led AI strategy and complex change management services to organizations around the world. We are artificial philosophers and meta-researchers who aim to make the philosophical more practical and the practical more philosophical. We believe that understanding AI requires synthesizing research across disciplines: behavioral economics, cognitive science, complexity science, computer science, decision science, design, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology. We are dedicated to unraveling the profound impact of AI on our society, communities, workplaces, and personal lives.  Subscribe for free at https://www.artificiality.world. If you enjoy our podcasts, please subscribe and leave a positive rating or comment. Sharing your positive feedback helps us reach more people and connect them with the world’s great minds. Learn more about ⁠⁠Sonder Studio⁠⁠ Subscribe to get ⁠⁠Artificiality⁠⁠ delivered to your email Learn about our book ⁠⁠Make Better Decisions⁠⁠ and buy it on ⁠⁠Amazon⁠⁠ Thanks to ⁠⁠Jonathan Coulton⁠⁠ for our music This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.artificiality.world. #ai #artificialintelligence #generativeai #airesearch #complexity #futureofai 

In this episode, we open with an opinionated chat about Facebook’s new oversight board and then we have a great conversation with Ted Kwartler, VP of Trusted AI at DataRobot. We think DataRobot is a very interesting AI company and Ted’s role is key to helping their customers with ethical AI. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.artificiality.world

In this episode, I have a conversation with Arash Rahnama, Head of Applied AI Research at Modzy (@arashrahnamaphd, @getmodzy, www.modzy.com). We talk about techniques for providing explainability in AI, how to pair explainability with fairness to reduce bias, how AI goes wrong and how diverse teams can provide important prior knowledge to AI systems and help govern them in the wild. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.artificiality.world

In this episode, I have a conversation with Scott Stephenson, Co-founder and CEO of Deepgram, a company which has built an end-to-end deep learning speech recognition system. We talk about why end-to-end deep learning sets Deepgram apart from other speech recognition companies, how Deepgram handles accents and bias, how enterprise speech recognition differs from consumer and Deepgram’s goal of becoming a speech understanding company. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.artificiality.world

In this episode, I have the pleasure of talking with Will Griffin, Chief Ethics Officer of Hypergiant, an Austin Texas-based AI product and services company. We talk about how Hypergiant uses Immanuel Kant’s categorical imperative in its ethics framework, how Hypergiant applies its ethics process with clients and why Will thinks ethical processes are important in AI development. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.artificiality.world

In this episode, I have the pleasure of interviewing Chelsea Barabas a PhD candidate at MIT’s Media Lab. We talk about her work on bias in the criminal justice system as well as her most recent work applying the concept of “studying up” from anthropology to the data science world. Here are some of the links we refer to in the episode:http://www.chelsbar.comhttps://cmsw.mit.edu/profile/chelsea-barabas/https://medium.com/@chelsea_barabashttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/opinion/pretrial-ai.htmlhttps://journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/article/view/ca31.3.01/367https://discardstudies.com/2016/08/08/ethnographic-refusal-a-how-to-guide/https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6464/421/tab-article-info This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.artificiality.world

In this episode, Dave interviews Helen about her recent article in Quartz, “Are AI ethicists making any difference?” Some of the topics we explore include: * Why is there a rush to hire AI ethicists in the tech industry?* What do AI ethicists do?* Why are people skeptical and what is “ethics washing” and “ethics bashing?”* What does Jacob Metcalf of Data & Society mean by saying that ethics is “the vessel which we use to hold our values?”* What does Josh Lovejoy of Microsoft mean by saying that ethics need not be seen as a philosophical add-on “but as just good design?”* What are AI checklists and why is their use good practice? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.artificiality.world

In this episode, we dive into the paradox of autonomy. Some of the topics we explore include:* Why are there so many paradoxical observations in AI?* What is the autonomy paradox?* Is there any way that giving up more information can be autonomy-enhancing?* What are principal reason and counter-factual explanations?* How can we deal with the autonomy paradox through AI UX design?For further reading, check out the most recent Artificiality article, the research paper we reference and the Buzzfeed article on Clearview AI.Special thanks to our friend, Jonathan Coulton, for our theme music. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.artificiality.world

Take a listen as we take a deep dive into the paradox of personalization. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.artificiality.world