#71 Demystifying AI with Hilke Schellmann
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About Our Guest
Hilke Schelmann is an Emmy-Award winning journalist, freelance reporter and journalism professor at NYU. She covers artificial intelligence and the future of work for the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian and MIT Technology Review amongst others. She was a showrunner and reporter for the Wall Street Journal's video series Moving Upstream and her work has been featured in The New York Times, MIT Technology Review, TIME, The Atlantic and many others. She won an Emmy for her direction and filming of the documentary "Outlawed in Pakistan" which was also dubbed “among the standouts” at the Sundance Film Festival and she was a finalist for the Peabody Awards in 2017 for her investigation into student debt for VICE's flagship news magazine VICE on HBO.
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Show Notes
1:07 : What inspired you to start writing about AI
5:02 : How companies use AI in job hiring processes
9:38 : Drawbacks of using AI in job hiring processes
12:34 : Improvements to job hiring processes
15:18 : Advice for job seekers to succeed
21:06 : What should journalists do to hold AI accountable
23:14 : The need to improve AI literacy
26:41 : Takes from lecture at University of Oregon
28:30 : Optimism for the future of Journalism and AI
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