Response-ability.Tech
The annual Response-Ability Summit, formerly the Anthropology + Technology conference, brings together leading experts from the social sciences and technology to champion socially-responsible tech, and to foster dialogue and collaboration across the disciplines. The summit has been curated to help today’s leading technology companies understand the significant value of combining teams of technologists with social scientists. Together we can build a future in which socially-responsible tech is the norm.
Episodes
43 episodes
What data scientists can learn from feminist social scientists in India. With Radhika Radhakrishnan.
In this episode, we're in conversation with feminist scholar and activist, Radhika Radhakrishnan. Radhika is a PhD student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the HASTS (History...
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Episode 43
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36:18
Why Human Rights Law is AI Ethics With Teeth. With Susie Alegre.
Our guest today is Susie Alegre. Susie is an international human rights lawyer and author. We're in conversation about her book, Freedom To Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate O...
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Episode 42
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30:33
Anthropology and Artificial Intelligence. With Veronica Barassi
Our guest today is Professor Veronica Barassi. Veronica is an anthropologist and author of
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Episode 41
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29:52
Understanding Data and Privacy as a UX Researcher. With Laura Musgrave
Our guest today is Laura Musgrave. Laura was named one of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™ for 2022. Laura is a digital a...
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Episode 40
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27:44
Social Science-Led User Research in Tech. With Rosie Webster
Our guest today is Dr Rosie Webster. Rosie has a PhD and an MSc in health psychology. She’s currently Science Lead for Zinc’s venture builder programme. Prior to Zinc, Rosie worked as a UX researcher at digital...
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Episode 39
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26:30
Engineering Cultures and Internet Infrastructure Politics. With Corinne Cath-Speth
My guest today is Dr Corinne Cath-Speth. Corinne is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on Internet infrastructure politics, engineering cultures, and technology policy and governance.Corinne has recently completed their PhD...
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Episode 38
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47:31
Recommender Systems and Inequality in the Creator Economy. With Matt Artz
Our guest today is Matt Artz. Matt is a business and design anthropologist, consultant, author, speaker, and creator. As a creator he creates podcasts, music, and visual art. Many people will know Matt through his
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Episode 37
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50:06
Communicating the Social Impacts of AI. With Nat Kendall-Taylor
Our guest today is Dr Nat Kendall-Taylor. Nat received his PhD in Anthropology at UCLA and in 2008 he joined the FrameWorks Institute, a non-profit research organisation in Washington, D.C., whe...
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Episode 36
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44:20
The Ethics of Venture Capital Investors. With Johannes Lenhard
Our guest today is Dr Johannes Lenhard. Johannes received his PhD in Anthropology at Cambridge University and in 2017 started a post-doctoral research project, at the Max Planck Centre Cambridge for th...
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Episode 35
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45:38
Humanising Cybersecurity Through Anthropology. With Lianne Potter
Our guest today is Lianne Potter. Lianne is an anthropologist, self-taught software developer, cyber security evangelist, and entrepreneur. Lianne works at Covea Insurance as their Information Security Transformation Manager where she advocates...
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Episode 34
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38:45
Bringing an Anthropological Lens to Covid-19. With Gitika Saksena
My guest today is Gitika Saksena. Gitika is a Director at LagomWorks, a research and innovation consulting firm she founded in 2018. Before that she was a Vice President at Accenture Technology in India, whe...
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Episode 33
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36:09
Dignity-Centred Technology: Enabling Human Flourishing. With Lorenn Ruster and Thea Snow
My guests today are Lorenn Ruster and Thea Snow. Lorenn has recently completed her Masters at the
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Episode 32
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35:34
Creating Emergent Socio-Digital Futures. With Susan Halford
My guest today is Professor Susan Halford, who is the co-Director of the Bristol Digital Futures Institute at the University of Bristol. Susan is our
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Episode 31
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30:32
How Spotify and Google are Using Social Science to Innovate. With Tom Hoy
My guest today is Tom Hoy. Tom is one of the founding Partners at Stripe Partners, the London-based innovation consultancy. Alongside co-founders Tom Rowley and Simon Roberts, Tom has built Stripe Pa...
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Episode 30
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35:07
Building Trust with Algorithmic Audits. With Gemma Galdon-Clavell
Our guest today is Dr Gemma Galdon-Clavell. Gemma is the Founder and CEO of Eticas Consulting. Her multidisciplinary background in the social, ethical and legal impact of data-intensive technology ...
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Episode 29
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39:27
The Future of Privacy Tech. With Gilbert Hill
In this episode we're in conversation with Gilbert Hill. Gilbert is a privacy technologist and he's talking at the 2021 Summit in May.Most recently Gilbert was CEO and Advisor to Tapmydata, a start-up...
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Episode 28
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50:36
The Power and Politics of Algorithmic Life. With Taina Bucher
In this episode we talk with Taina Bucher who is an associate professor in screen cultures at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo. Taina is t...
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Episode 27
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43:16
An Engineering Anthropologist. With Astrid Countee
My guest today is Astrid Countee. Astrid is an anthropologist and technologist based in Houston, Texas. She is co-founder of Missing Link Studios. In 2016, Astrid wrote an article for Ethnogr...
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Episode 26
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56:44
Making Data and AI Work for People and Society. With Reema Patel
In this episode we talk to Reema Patel, Head of Public Engagement at the Ada Lovelace Institute. The Ada Lovelace Institut...
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Episode 25
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28:20
The Office, Media, and Embodied Computing. With Simon Roberts
In this episode we talk to Dr Simon Roberts, business anthropologist and Partner at Stripe Partners, a strategy and innovation consultancy based in London. He's also the author of
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Episode 24
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43:07
Building Evidence-Based & Problem-Led Commercial Ventures. With Rachel Carey
In this episode we talk to Dr Rachel Carey who is Chief Scientist at Zinc. Backed by the London School of Economics, Zinc was created in 2017 to test different ways of tackling important societal issues.
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Episode 23
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40:52
Making Tech Accountable: Reflecting on 2020. With Martha Dark
In this episode we catch up with Martha Dark. Martha is the co-founder of Foxglove, a new NGO that exists to make tech fair for every...
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Episode 22
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26:00
Addressing Ethical Challenges in a FinTech Startup. With Jeffrey Greger
Jeffrey Greger is a UX Researcher at Varo Bank. His work focuses on the ethical and organisational challenges that design professionals face as they develop financial services for and with low- to moderate-income communities. He holds a Master’...
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Episode 21
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50:21
Why Our Cities Aren’t Just Another Technology Problem. With Ben Green
Dr Ben Green is our guest in this week’s episode. Ben Green spoke in the Smart Cities stream at the conference on 9 October 2020. Ben is the author of The Smart Enough City: Putting Tec...
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Episode 20
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41:11
DNA Testing Sites: The Promises and Pitfalls of Precision Medicine. Part II
In this special two-part episode, Zoe Weaver, a Psychology student at the University of the West of England and our 2020 Summer intern, unravels some of the privacy concerns raised by the Blackstone group’s recent acquisition of genealogy provi...
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Episode 19
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