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A show where we apply feminist theories and concepts to everyday technologies. We aren't luddites here, but it is complicated!
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Robots. Once the stuff of science fiction, now ubiquitous. From the military, to talk shows, to Syrian refugee camps, we are encountering and interacting with robots everywhere. Today on the pod, Jill talks with Dr. Julie Carpenter about how our interactions with robots may already be changing our sense of ourselves and our place in […]
Open AI released ChatGPT three to the general public at the end of 2022. And within five days of its release, it had over 1 million users. It’s fair to say that today, three years later, ChatGPT, and other large language models embedded in Google, Microsoft, X, Facebook, Snapchat, Adobe, and well, everywhere have become […]
It’s really surprising how little we know about the brain. But have you ever thought about how we know what we do know? And whose brains were on the line when it came to obtaining that information? In today’s episode, Jill interviews Dr. Michelle Pham about her research in the field of neuroethics. We examine […]
Since Roe versus Wade was overturned in the USA in 2022, there’s been increasing concern regarding how technologies like period tracking apps might be used in abortion court cases. We know these apps are not reliable, but there is concern that they might be used as evidence anyway. Surprisingly, Dr. Charlotte Sabourin, Jill’s guest today, […]
12 years ago, in 2013, Spike Jones released the motion picture, Her, staring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlet Johansson. And overnight, the idea of digital women as romantic companions was everywhere. Her was followed rapidly by a slate of other pop culture media exploring the pheonomen, like Westworld, Ex Machina and BladeRunner. The trope was very […]
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