For the Needs of Society
Synthetic Society
English - August 13, 2021 23:51 - 38 minutes - 53 MBPolitics News Government artificialintelligence deeplearning future informationtechnology innovation machinelearning moderntechnology policy politics techie Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This episode Tom speaks to Areeq Chowdhury, the founder and director of WebRoots Democracy. WebRoots was a think tank focused on progressive and inclusive technology policy which ran for almost seven years.
The pair discuss digital voting, facial recognition software and if social media companies should pay a user-based tax to fund digital literacy and anti-discrimination initiatives.