Data & Society Podcast
1) Challenging AI Hype and Tech Industry Power | Book Talk
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not magic or sentient; it does not even describe one coherent set of technologies. In two new books, Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, and Karen Hao explore how AI instead s...Show More
2) What is Work Worth? Exploring What Generative AI Means for Workers’ Lives and Labor | Keynote Event
On May 6, 2025 at The Greene Space in New York City, Dr. Julián Posada and Aiha Nguyen set the stage for Data & Society’s online workshop “What is Work Worth? Exploring What Generative AI Means for Wo...Show More
3) [Live] The Cloud is Dead: Living with Legacies of Resource Extraction
This live fireside chat was co-organized by Data & Society and Tech Workers Coalition during SF Climate Week 2025 at Tamarack, a community space located in Oakland, California. The live discussion fea...Show More
4) Resisting Predatory Data | Book Talk
On April 10th, Anita Say Chan, author of Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future (UCP 2025 and open access), joined Émile P. Torres and Timnit Gebru for a discussi...Show More
5) AI Assistant or AI Boss? w/ Data & Society
In this episode of Computer Says Maybe, host Alix Dunn speaks with Data & Society Labor Futures researchers Aiha Nguyen and Alexandra Mateescu, who recently authored Generative AI and Labor: Power, Hy...Show More
6) Connective (t)Issues: Stories of Digitality, Infrastructures, and Resistance | Public Panel
Physical and digital infrastructures have raised tensions around the world, seeding land disputes, climate effects, and disrupting social fabrics. Yet they are also intertwined with myths of progress,...Show More
7) [Databite No. 161] Red Teaming Generative AI Harm
What exactly is generative AI (genAI) red-teaming, what strategies and standards should guide its implementation, and how can it protect the public interest? In this conversation, Lama Ahmad, Camille ...Show More
8) The Taiwan Bottleneck w/ Brian Chen
In time for this year’s RightsCon, Data & Society Policy Director Brian J. Chen joins Alix Dunn of Computer Says Maybe for a conversation about the process of advanced chip manufacture, its entangleme...Show More
9) Living in the Shadow of AI and Data (Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia) | Network Book Forum
Code Dependent spans stories from across the globe and calls attention to the voices of ordinary people as they navigate the everyday challenges of living with data-driven systems and work to reclaim ...Show More
10) Data & Society at 10: Foreseeable Futures
Foreseeable Futures, held on September 26, 2024, was a celebration of Data & Society at 10, where we celebrated our first decade with our incredible network of alumni, friends, and supporters.