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State of the Pod

Cornell’s Student Driven Podcast Production

Latest Episodes:

201: Of Monks and Machines Dec 06, 2019
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Produced by Blake Gallay.

All around us, jobs are being outsourced to metal muscles and silicon brains. From Gutenberg’s printing press, to assembly lines, to deep-learning algorithms, what can history teach us about the automated future? This episode is an exploration of where we’ve come from, and where we might be headed in an automated, computerized world.

Special thanks to Krithik Ranjan, Keenan Ashbrook, and Yunyun Wang.

Episode art by Nicole Fung

Episode Notes: https://stateofthepod.com/2019/12/31/monks-notes/

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108: Our AI Overlords May 24, 2019

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Produced by Jarrett Coleman

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107: Bury the Coffin May 24, 2019

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Produced by Carolyn Roche

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106: Haute Pollution May 24, 2019
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Produced by Bailey Willett

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105: My Baby is Gucci May 24, 2019
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Produced by Aditya Rao

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104: Numbers That Lie: A Conversation with Vivian Kiniga May 24, 2019
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Produced by Yunyun Wang

Google has a racism problem. And nearly three years after an incident where software engineer Jacky Alciné reported that Google Photos’ image recognition algorithms were misclassifying black people as “gorillas”, Google has since blocked the gorilla identifier altogether rather than risking another incidence of mis-categorization. However, there may be more than meets the eye, because a recent research study conducted by Joy Buolamwini of MIT Media labs identified several companies with facial recognition softwares that consistently return less accurate results for female faces compared to males, and even lower accuracy for faces of women of color.
In this episode of State of the Pod, I sit down with Vivian Kiniga, to dig deeper into the pattern of engrained bias in computing and algorithms and what can be done about it.

Vivian is a UX designer currently pursuing an MS at Cornell University. Read more about Vivian’s Medium post where she analyzes the Google Photos facial identification error case and raise important questions relating to data, classification and the politics of algorithms.

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103: Math Incarceration– Racial Bias in AI May 05, 2019
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produced by Michelle Gery

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102: Hot and Dangerous May 05, 2019
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produced by Monica Cramer

Episode art by Nicole Fung
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101: Rise of the Juul May 04, 2019
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Co-produced by Yunyun Wang, Michael Sun and Evan Kravitz

Ever wonder how an e-cigarette company founded on a mission to provide a “healthy alternative” for heavy smokers found their primary audience in a young demographic of former non-smokers? In this first episode of Cornell University’s brand new student-driven podcast, we take a deep dive into the origin story of a Silicon-Valley start-up turned multi-billion tech company.

Special thanks to Professor Robert Oswald, of the Molecular Medicine Department at Cornell University, who walks us through the biochemical effects of nicotine salts in vape pens versus that of traditional cigarettes. We next feature Jack Waxman, founder of Juulers Against Juul, to discuss his advocacy efforts and the on-going debate at the legislative level on whether a flavor ban will curb rocketing Juuling rates at middle and high schools across America.

More detailed episode notes and citations can be found at www.stateofthepod.com

Episode art by Nicole Fung
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