Arsenic in My Muffins (with Kasia Chmielinski)

Arsenic in My Muffins (with Kasia Chmielinski)

Author: iHeartPodcasts December 9, 2021 Duration: 37:07

Baratunde knows what is healthy to eat or not, thanks to the required nutrition labels on our food. But how do we know the ingredients in the algorithms and AI we depend on are safe to use? Baratunde speaks with Kasia Chmielinksi about the Data Nutrition Project, which helps data scientists, developers, and product managers assess the viability, health, and quality of the data that feeds their algorithms and influences our decisions daily. 


Guest: Kasia Chmielinski

Bio: Co-Founder of the Data Nutrition Project, an affiliate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, senior research advisor at the Partnership on AI

Online: The Data Nutrition Project website; Kasia on Twitter @kaschm



Show Notes + Links

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We are grateful to Kasia Chmielinski for joining us! Follow them at @kaschm on Twitter, or find more of their work at datanutrition.org.


ACTIONS


- PERSONALLY REFLECT 

Like people, machines are shaped by the context in which they were created. So if we think of machines and algorithmic systems as children who are learning from us - their parents - what kind of parents do we want to be? How do we want to raise our machines to be considerate, fair, and to build a better world than the one we are in today?

 

- BECOME INFORMED

Watch: Coded Bias

Listen: Radical AI Podcast

Read: Race after Technology, Weapons of Math Destruction, Data Feminism

Make Choices: *privacy not included (consumer guide for buying technologies)

 

- PUBLICLY PARTICIPATE

Donate to these groups on the front lines ensuring the future of AI is human and just: Algorithmic Justice League, ACLU, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Discuss: Host a book club! The books above are really great platforms to gather folks who want to learn from the literature and each other.

Attend a lecture or event: Data & Society, AI Now

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