DIGETHIX

Can you ever have so much data that it becomes unmanageable? Are there ways make the way you use data more effective? In this episode, Seth talks to Lauren Maffeo about how to design a data governance framework that will best suit your needs.

Lauren is a service designer at Steampunk, a human-centered design firm serving the federal government. She is also a founding editor of Springer’s AI and Ethics journal and an area editor for Data and Policy, an open access journal with Cambridge University Press. She also teaches courses on design at George Washington University. She is the author of the book, Data Governance from the Ground Up.

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Should you use dating apps? What skills do you need to form a relationship? What role does technology play in our relationships? Ethicist Kate Ott helps us answer some of these questions.

You can find the full episode here:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5O3ALHFCqjnsWtN0i0TWGc?si=rEn6y2mhSv-HpnfzE_Om_Q&nd=1

What challenges do parents uniquely face today with technology? Dr. Loretta Brady offers some insights into connecting with kids in the midst of technological change.

https://digethix.org/24-parenting-in-the-digital-dystopia-with-dr-loretta-brady/

How can technology play a role in our safety infrastructure? How do crises affect the process of consent?

LiveSafe's Ryan Mayfield explains safety communication technologies and crisis prevention/response.



https://digethix.org/21-trust-and-safety-communication-with-ryan-mayfield/

We had a chance to partner with After Dinner Conversation, an online ethics magazine. The magazine hosts stories that center around an ethical ambiguity, with discussion questions following each story.

How do you personally navigate situations in which you can’t tell immediately if a decision will be right or wrong? In what situations do you find yourself unsure of what choice to make? How has technology impacted the situations that you find yourself feeling this way?

Full episode here:

https://digethix.org/20-exploring-ethical-problems-through-stories-with-after-dinner-conversations/

Dr. Benjamin Chicka serves as a lecturer of philosophy and religion at Curry College. He is the author of the book, Playing as Others. He is interested in how video games can be used as a source of positive ethical formation. Much of his perspective has been informed by the infamous GamerGate scandal in 2014.

Key questions: how do we learn to act ethically? What tools do we have to train ourselves in the direction that we hope to go? Should videogames be a part of this formation strategy or are they merely diversions?

Episode:

https://digethix.org/digethix-19-videogames-and-positive-ethical-formation-with-benjamin-chicka/



Potentially helpful links:

Book: https://www.baylorpress.com/9781481315463/playing-as-others/

Gamergate info: https://www.vox.com/2014/9/6/6111065/gamergate-explained-everybody-fighting

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/10/14/the-only-guide-to-gamergate-you-will-ever-need-to-read/

Forums/video game communities

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/gamesblog/2013/jul/31/gamer-communities-positive-side-twitter

Papers please

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2013/11/10/244413539/papers-please-puts-your-loyalty-sympathy-to-the-test

Exploitation in the video game industry

https://time.com/5603329/e3-video-game-creators-union/

What traits make for an effective leader today? How can we build authentic relationships in our increasingly technology mediated world? Is it necessary to squeeze every ounce of productivity out of each other? Willys DeVoll takes us through some insights from his new book, Leadership is a Relationship.

https://digethix.org/digethix-18-ethical-leadership-in-business-and-life-with-willys-devoll/

The main topic of this episode is Jacob Boss’s research on transhumanism. Transhumanism is a movement of people dedicated to using technology to transform humanity and to radically change the human condition. Jacob’s specific area of research is on a group of transhumanists known as Grinders. This group is highly interested in body modification through do-it-yourself science and technology.

What is body modification? What does it mean to have body autonomy in an era of powerful technology? How will our ideas of self-expression change? How are grassroots movements like the grinders related to more corporatized movements within transhumanism itself? How far should we go in pursuit of new technologies that may relieve our pains and illnesses?

Have you ever thought about what it would be like to imagine a different kind of technology company? On this episode, Dr. Rubén Mancha makes the case for non-profit technology companies as a way to better serve the community.

https://digethix.org/digethix-16-the-case-for-the-non-profit-tech-company-with-ruben-mancha/

On July 31, 2021, Doordash drivers went on strike. Industry veteran Bernd Dürrwächter describes what factors led to the strike, especially this issue of how tips were being deducted from worker wages. You can find the full episode here:

https://digethix.org/digethix-15-information-asymmetry-in-the-app-economy-the-case-of-the-doordash-strike/

Seth Villegas interviews Timothée Mathon. Timothée is a French freelance artist. He has experience working as a Concept Artist, Art Director and Illustrator for the AAA Videogame and Movie industry (Ubisoft, Quantic Dream, Netflix, and Net Ease Games). He designed a collection of Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs) and heavily advocates for the independence of artists in the industry.

The key questions for this episode are: what is radical about non-fungible tokens as a technology? How can NFT change the way that art and art ownership function? What new options might they give to artists?

https://digethix.org/digethix-14-nfts-and-the-future-of-art-with-timothee-mathon/

Seth sat down with Dr. Emmanuelle Burton to talk about ethics education for CS students and how reaching more science fiction might help us to pay better attention to our circumstances. How do we become the right sort of people to create worthwhile technologies? How do we prevent these technologies from distorting us and our relationships? What ethical skills will be useful for the next generation of technologists?

https://digethix.org/digethix-13-exploring-attention-and-virtue-through-science-fiction-with-emanuelle-burton/

Seth Villegas and Bernd Dürrwächter discuss the role of CAPTCHAs and bots in our automated systems and the potential obstacle they pose to people making informed decisions.

The key questions for this episode are: How can companies properly inform their users so that they can make informed decisions about what they are doing? Why is it that we have to prove to your technical systems that we are human? How should we think about the tradeoffs between security and convenience?

https://digethix.org/podcast-12-captchas-bots-and-informed-consent-with-bernd-durrwachter/

Seth Villegas sat down with associate provost Azer Bestavros to talk about Boston University's new Computing and Data Sciences unit. They talk about massive shared computing, privacy preserving analytics, and the history of computer science as a whole. How can computational methods and technologies be used to address social challenges? How might data be integrated into other academic disciplines? What role do computer scientists have to play in larger research questions?

https://digethix.org/podcast-11-azer-bestavros/

Season 2 will be starting up next Wednesday! We are starting strong with an interview with Boston University Associate Provost Azer Bestavros, who is heading up the new Computing and Data Sciences Unit!

Seth and Bernd break down the Pegasus NSO Spyware scandal and its surrounding context. There's a bigger history here. We've compiled some extra articles on our website.

https://digethix.org/podcast-9-pegasus-nso-spyware-and-the-business-of-surveillance/

Episode 8 is live! Seth Villegas sits down with Bernd Dürrwächter to talk about ethics education for technologists. They highlight how difficult it is to come to a consensus around values. Given the value problem, how can a podcast like DIGETHIX make concrete suggestions? How can public discussion be used in conjunction with education to better equip the next generation of technologists?

https://digethix.org/podcast-8-critical-thinking-and-the-process-of-ethics-in-technology/

Episode 7 is live! Seth Villegas talks to Dr. Noreen Herzfeld about the history of artificial intelligence and about cultural attitudes towards technology. The key questions for this episode are: what does it mean for a machine system to be considered intelligent? How are our needs different from machines?



https://digethix.org/podcast-6-artificial-intelligence-emotion-and-what-makes-us-human-with-dr-noreen-herzfeld/

Potentially Helpful sources:

https://www.loc.gov/loc/brain/emotion/Kagan.html
https://www.simplypsychology.org/behaviorism.html
https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/emotion-ai-explained
https://news.stanford.edu/2021/02/23/four-causes-zoom-fatigue-solutions/
https://aeon.co/essays/on-free-will-daniel-dennett-and-gregg-caruso-go-head-to-head

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Music: "Dreams" from Bensound.com

Episode 6 is live! Seth Villegas interviews research scientist Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad about using data to work through discrepancies in patient care.



You can find the full episode here:

https://digethix.org/digethix-6-using-data-to-address-inequities-in-healthcare-with-muhammad-ahmad/

Episode 5 is live! Seth sits down with shaunesse' jacobs to talk about race, healthcare, and teaching under COVID. shaunesse' does research on how to better address black maternal mortality rates with the Boston Medical Center and the Boston University School of Public Health.



https://digethix.org/podcast-5-black-maternal-mortality-and-the-informatic-problem-of-personal-experience/

Episode 4 is officially live! Seth sits down with Virginia Modeling Analysis and Simulation Center's Alex Nielsen. The key questions for this episode are: what does it mean for something to be digital? What does it mean to expose otherwise invisible digital markers? What does it mean to have our relationships mediated digitally?

https://digethix.org/podcast-4-digitality-and-the-new-aesthetic-with-alex-nielsen/

Episode 2 of the DIGETHIX Podcast is officially live!
Seth Villegas sits down with Kate Stockly to talk about . You can find it here:

https://digethix.org/podcast-2-kate-stockly/