Data & Society Podcast
1) The Environmental Costs of AI Are Surging – What Now? | 'Understanding AI' — NYPL x D&S Event Series [2]
For the second installment of the 'Understanding AI' series, researcher Tamara Kneese spoke with environmental justice researcher Sanjana Paul and critical social scientist Jasmine McNealy about the e...Show More
2) Understanding AI: What the Public Needs to Know | 'Understanding AI' — NYPL x D&S Event Series [1]
In this opening session of the 'Understanding AI' series, social scientist Alice E. Marwick hosted a grounding conversation about how AI technologies are reshaping daily life with artist Mimi Ọnụọha, ...Show More
3) Climate-Conscious Tech Workers: Turning the Tide from Within | Databite 162
On December 11, Climate, Technology, and Justice Program Director Kneese discussed the findings of her report with Eliza Pan, co-director of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, in a conversation mod...Show More
Climate-Conscious Tech Workers: Turning the Tide from Within | Databite 162
1:04:00 | Dec 12th, 2025
4) A Roadmap for Rewiring Democracy in the Age of AI | Book Talk
On October 23, in a book talk moderated by Data & Society Director of Research Alice Marwick, cybersecurity technologist Bruce Schneier and data scientist Nathan E. Sanders unpacked their book 'Rewiri...Show More
5) 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
6) 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
7) [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
8) 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
9) 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
10) 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
Connective (t)Issues: Stories of Digitality, Infrastructures, and Resistance | Public Panel
1:02:06 | Mar 27th, 2025