Renée Cummings is a criminologist, criminal psychologist, and an AI ethicist who, among other things, specializes in best-practice criminal justice interventions and implicit bias. Given the global Black Lives Matter movement and the fact that there have been numerous examples where technological solutions have been proven to exhibit a biased or even racist predisposition, I thought it is about time to bring this conversation to Singularity.FM.
During this 85 min interview with Renée Cummings, we cover a variety of interesting topics such as: the lack of diversity among my podcast guests; her journey from rehabilitating substance abuse and criminal psychology to criminology and AI ethics; the role of AI in treating addiction; #BLM and systemic racism in the US police; overt and covert racism; the American, Canadian and Scandinavian model of policing; the racist bias of predictive policing, criminal justice, insurance, and banking algorithms; ways of challenging the status quo; what defunding the police means and the example of Camden, NJ; Urban AI and it’s mission statement; why and how women of color ought to get involved in AI; why most digital personal assistants like Alexa are female and what it says about sexism.
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