Margaret Mitchell: Can Big Tech Be Reformed to Make It More Ethically Responsible In Its Development of Artificial Intelligence?
Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.
In this episode, Andrew is joined by Margaret Mitchell, computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher.
Margaret Mitchell is an AI researcher who has worked for Microsoft and Google. Her research involves vision-language and grounded language generation, focusing on how to evolve artificial intelligence towards positive goals. This includes research on helping computers to communicate based on what they can process, as well as projects to create assistive and clinical technology from the state of the art in AI. Her work combines computer vision, natural language processing, social media, many statistical methods, and insights from cognitive science.
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