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01:54 - Matt’s Superpower: Letting Things Go Easily
* Nonattachment and Immigration
08:35 - Matt’s Journey From Anthropology to Tech
* The Intersection of Technology and Social Science
13:42 - Algorithmic Auditing and Accountability
* Internal vs External Audits
* Identifying Affected Parties
* Waze Hijacked L.A. in the Name of Convenience. Can Anyone Put the Genie Back in the Bottle? (https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/waze-los-angeles-neighborhoods/)
* Participation in Machine Learning
* People as Constituents – Not Resources
29:38 - Data Surveillance: Gathering Enough Data vs Gathering Too Much Data (and particularly the effect on Black and Brown people)
* Data & Society – Ruha Benjamin presents Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (https://datasociety.net/library/databite-no-124-ruha-benjamin/)
* The Invisible Institute (https://invisible.institute/)
36:57 - Speaking Out Regarding Racial Equity/Inequity and Social Justice in the Workplace
42:26 - Getting Involved in Politics on a Personal Level in 2020
48:12 - Medical/Healthcare Informatics & Thinking About Health Disparities
Reflections:
Jacob: Who unintended, affected by our technologies communities and people are.
Chanté: Diving deeper into algorithmic auditing as it pertains to ethics and what that means for organizations and leaders who hold power and influence.
Matthew: Technology platforms are far-reaching and engineers and technologists are going to have to become more fluent social scientists.
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Special Guest: Matthew Zhou.