This episode features Dr. Alex Hanna in conversation with Professor Moya Bailey. Dr. Hanna discusses how the work of the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) has activist applications in seeking to mitigate sociotechnical harms and algorithmic injustice. Dr. Hanna further elaborates on how young professionals interested in AI and machine learning can consciously navigate the industry and work to reconstruct harmful sociotechnical frameworks.

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Featuring

Moya Bailey 

Alex Hanna

Sponsor:

Northwestern University School of Communication 

More from our guests: 

Moya Bailey

Associate Professor | Department of Communication Studies

Northwestern University

Digital Alchemist | Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network

Board President | Allied Media Projects

Twitter: @moyazb

IG: @transformisogynoir

Alex Hanna

Director of Research | Distributed AI Research Institute 

Twitter: @alexhanna

Works Referenced in Episode: 

Bender, E. M., Gebru, T., McMillan-Major, A., & Shmitchell, S. (2021, March). On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?🦜. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM conference on fairness, accountability, and transparency (pp. 610-623).
Spade, D. (2015). Normal life: Administrative violence, critical trans politics, and the limits of law. Duke University Press.

Copy and Audio Editor:  

Sharlene Burgos 

Executive Producer:

DeVante Brown