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Miami Law ExplainerS14 E5 Why We Need Consumer ProtectionsFinancial law and fintech scholar Nikita Aggarwal discusses the independent agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Recorded February 28, 2024.2025-02-2713 min
The MET ShowUnexplainable Dreams, Kundalini Awakening, Law Of Attraction & More | Dr. Nikita Gupta | Ep - 6In this enlightening podcast episode, we delve into the transformational journey of Dr. Nikita Gupta, a post-doctorate researcher turned spiritual healer, famously known as the "Compassion Queen." Dr. Nikita's quest for love and her soul mission began with vivid dreams, unveiling her clairvoyant and clairsentient abilities. Listen as she shares her profound experiences with Kundalini rising, the law of attraction, and manifesting love. Join us to explore her incredible story of self-discovery, healing, and spiritual awakening.
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ABOUT DR. NIKITA GUPTA
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Dr. Nikita Gupta, a post-doctorate researcher specializing in material science, has experienced a profound...2024-11-2254 min
Miami Law ExplainerS13 E12 Buy Now, Pain LaterConsumer finance expert Nikita Aggarwal explores the popular industry. Recorded October 31, 2024.2024-11-0124 min
the c-suite podcastShow 163 - Money20/20 USA 2022 - Part 1The first of three episodes recorded in partnership with Banking Circle at Money20/20 USA, that took place in Las Vegas on 23rd to 26th October 2022. We recorded a series of interviews on the Banking Circle booth with a number of the speakers and attendees from the conference. Our guests for this first episode were:
1/ Aaron Wollner, CMO, Quontic Bank
2/ Jessica Turner, EVP, Global Open Banking & API, Mastercard
3/ Nelson Chu, Founder & CEO, Percent
4/ Julian Alcazar, Sr Payment Specialist, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and Nikita Aggarwal, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Technology, Law, and Policy, UCLA School of Law
5/ Anusha Ramanujam...2022-11-0237 min
Radio IntersectCaravan Tales: Episode 1: India - A Sizzling Platter of TasteThe taste in diversity isn't just a gift to India but also an integrated international market. Travel with us to the aroma of Indian food.
Writers: Kalidas Sreenivas, Nikita Taneja
Voice-over Artist: Kalidas Sreenivas
Production Manager and Editor: Yashika Aggarwal
2021-08-0104 min
Radio IntersectCurtain Factory: Episode 5: Paraya DhanThe term "Paraya Dhan" means the wealth that belongs to someone else. The term is usually used for girls, as they are considered to be given away in marriage. This episode of Curtain Factory deals with this societal norm and expresses the concern of any next to the door girl.
Writer, Production Manager, and Narrator: Yashika Aggarwal
Voice-over Artists: Shubham Mandal, Nikita Taneja, Kalidas, Shruti Pandey, Kshitij Sharma
Editors: Muskan Baweja and Yashika Aggarwal
2021-06-1004 min
IMF PodcastsNikita Aggarwal: The New Morality of DebtSociety has long debated the morality of debt. In ancient times, debt was viewed in many cultures as sinful, with lending at interest especially repugnant. These concerns continue to influence perceptions of lending and the regulation of credit markets today. Nikita Aggarwal is a research associate at the Digital Ethics Lab at Oxford University's Internet Institute. In this podcast, Aggarwal says our increasingly online lives prove a valuable source of data for lenders and add new dimensions to debt’s morality. Her article, The New Morality of Debt, is published in the March 2021 issue of Finance and Development Magazine. Tra...2021-05-2118 min
Radio IntersectBread Butter and Books: Episode 4: Finding ChikaThe way we grow up leaves an immense impact on us. Growing up in an orphanage is no exception. To know more, listen to this episode of Bread butter and books, and find your weekly read!
Production Manager: Yashika Aggarwal
Writer and Voice-over Artist: Nikita Taneja
Editor: Shubham Mandal 2021-05-1203 min
Technology & ProseJohn Danaher on Automation and UtopiaJohn Danaher, Senior Lecturer in Law at NUI Galway, discusses his new book, Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World Without Work.
On the season finale of Technology & Prose, John Danaher joins host Nikita Aggarwal to talk about the meaning of work (1:13), the automatability and automation of work (2:36), why we should welcome automation — the case for technological unemployment (10:02), the gig economy, Uber, and the limits to improving the conditions of work (13:25), building a post-work future - the ‘cyborg utopia’ and the ‘virtual utopia’ (19:25), problems with cyborgization (22:44), the meaning of utopia (28:00), the concept of virtual reality (29...2021-04-1547 minTechnology & ProseSushma Raman on The Coming Good SocietySushma Raman, Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School, discusses her new book, The Coming Good Society: Why New Realities Demand New Rights (co-authored with Bill Schulz).
On this episode of Technology & Prose, Sushma Raman joins host Nikita Aggarwal to talk about the meaning and role of human rights in the Good Society (1:45), the tension between strengthening existing rights and recognising new rights (4:30), Big Data, surveillance and the right to privacy (5:54), intercultural perspectives on the right to privacy and human rights (11:35), human gene editing, DNA sequencing, th...2021-04-0839 minTechnology & ProseAaron Roth on The Ethical AlgorithmAaron Roth, Professor of Computer Science at UPenn, discusses his recent book, The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design.
On this episode of Technology & Prose, Aaron Roth joins host Nikita Aggarwal to talk about the importance of ethical algorithm design (1:34), differential privacy and designing privacy-preserving algorithms (6:09), the costs and trade-offs of designing for privacy (10:38), application of differential privacy by Apple, Google and the 2020 US Census (14:13), GANs and synthetic data (18:22), designing fair algorithms, the ProPublica COMPAS investigation, the value and challenge of formalising ethical norms (20:30), modelling fairness/accuracy trade-offs (28:26), multi-objective optimisation (32:36), algorithmic game t...2021-03-2544 minTechnology & ProseWilliam Magnuson on Blockchain DemocracyWilliam Magnuson discusses his latest book, Blockchain Democracy: Technology, Law and the Rule of the Crowd
On this episode of Technology & Prose, William Magnuson, Associate Professor of Law at Texas A&M, joins host Nikita Aggarwal to discuss Satoshi Nakomoto and the genesis of bitcoin (1:40), the history of the internet, the Cypherpunk movement and early cryptocurrencies (4:00), the 2008 financial crisis and the socio-political drivers of bitcoin (9:57), bitcoin and blockchain as technologies of democracy, the role of miners and cryptocurrency exchanges (12:44), Mt. Gox and crime on the blockchain (17:04), Silk Road and the regulation of bitcoin and blockchain (24:40), i...2021-03-1144 minTechnology & ProseSam Woolley on The Reality GameSam Woolley discusses his new book, The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth.
On this episode of Technology & Prose, Sam Woolley, Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism at UT Austin, joins host Nikita Aggarwal to talk about computational propaganda (comprop), mis- and disinformation (1:43) how the term ‘fake news’ has been weaponised by despots (4:46) the ‘Reality Game’ and how comprop has distorted the truth, increased polarisation and decreased trust in institutions (6:30) the key perpetrators of comprop (9:05) grassroots v astroturfing and the boundary between legitimate and illegitimate manipulation (10:20) the history of compro...2021-03-0443 minTechnology & ProseNick Diakopoulos on Automating the NewsNick Diakopoulos discusses his latest book, Automating the News: How Algorithms are Rewriting the Media.
On this episode of Technology & Prose, Nick Diakopoulos, Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Computer Science at Northwestern University, joins host Nikita Aggarwal to talk about how AI is being used in the news media (1:43) the use of AI for story discovery and the Lead Locator project (5:15) hybrid human-AI journalism (8:23) defining “newsworthiness” and the risk of selection bias in data-driven journalism (10:53) data science skills and the need for more interdisciplinary journalism education (14:54) the impact of social media platforms and search engines on news cura...2021-02-2544 minTechnology & ProseGary Marcus on Rebooting AIGary Marcus, Professor Emeritus at NYU and co-founder of Robust.ai, discusses his recent book Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust.
On this episode of Technology & Prose, Gary Marcus joins host Nikita Aggarwal to talk about the “AI chasm”— the gap between the goals and reality of artificial intelligence (1:40) GPT-3 and the limits of deep learning (4:38) how to build AI systems that have knowledge, reasoning and understanding (9:14) the politics of AI research (and more on the limits of GPT-3) (16:00) innate knowledge in machines and the need for a hybrid approach to building AI (33:25) the Mon...2021-02-1144 minTechnology & ProseBen Green on The Smart Enough CityBen Green discusses The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in its Place to Reclaim our Urban Future.
On this episode of Technology & Prose, Ben Green joins host Nikita Aggarwal to discuss (1:17) tech solutionism and the dangers of viewing urban problems as technology problems (4:09) the shortcomings of Open Data initiatives (7:33) the unintended costs of self driving cars (12:35) the "smart city trap", and the role of technology companies in hyping up the idea of smart cities (16:49) the shelving of the Sidewalk Labs Toronto Waterfront project, public-private partnerships, privacy and privatisation of public space, #BlockSidewalk (26:05) transparency, accountability and balancing public...2021-02-0444 minTechnology & ProseRyan Abbott on The Reasonable RobotProfessor of law and medicine Ryan Abbott discusses The Reasonable Robot, a fascinating new book on artificial intelligence and the law.
On this episode of Technology and Prose, Ryan Abbott joins host Nikita Aggarwal to talk about the principle of AI legal neutrality (1:23), AI inventions and patent law (2:23), the AI Inventor Project and AI patent cases (5:12), Uber's Arizona accident and liability for self-driving cars (12:52), the 'reasonable robot' standard of liability (14:58), the end of human drivers? (21:55), AI for healthcare and liability for harm (26:00), AI exceptionalism (28:46), AI ethics and principle-based regulation (30:28), AI explainability (32:22), lethal autonomous weapons and killer robots (33:35...2021-01-2147 minTechnology & ProseTim Hwang on Subprime Attention CrisisLawyer, writer and researcher Tim Hwang discusses his provocative new book, Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet
On the first episode of Technology & Prose, Tim Hwang joins host Nikita Aggarwal to talk about the digital and programmatic advertising market (1:39), why the attention being sold for digital advertising is garbage (5:32), similarities with the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis (10:18), digital vs traditional advertising (12:32), the myth of online manipulation (15:36), digital advertising fraud (16:55), regulating digital advertising (20:13), advertising and the design of the internet (23:24), why this is the world that Google built (25:53), alternatives to a...2021-01-0742 minTechnology & ProseIntroducing Technology & ProseIntroducing Technology & Prose, a new podcast in which authors join host Nikita Aggarwal to discuss the latest books about technology and society.
2021-01-0301 min
Philosophical Disquisitions81 - Consumer Credit, Big Tech and AI Crime
In today's episode, I talk to Nikita Aggarwal about the legal and regulatory aspects of AI and algorithmic governance. We focus, in particular, on three topics: (i) algorithmic credit scoring; (ii) the problem of 'too big to fail' tech platforms and (iii) AI crime. Nikita is a DPhil (PhD) candidate at the Faculty of Law at Oxford, as well as a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute's Digital Ethics Lab. Her research examines the legal and ethical challenges due to emerging, data-driven technologies, with a particular focus on machine learning in consumer lending. Prior to entering academia...2020-09-1800 min
Algocracy and Transhumanism Podcast81 – Consumer Credit, Big Tech and AI Crime
In today’s episode, I talk to Nikita Aggarwal about the legal and regulatory aspects of AI and algorithmic governance. We focus, in particular, on three topics: (i) algorithmic credit scoring; (ii) the problem of ‘too big to fail’ tech platforms and (iii) AI crime. Nikita is a DPhil (PhD) candidate at the Faculty of Law at Oxford, as well as a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute’s Digital Ethics Lab. Her research examines the legal and ethical challenges due to emerging, data-driven technologies, with a particular focus on machine learning in consumer lending. Prior to entering academia...2020-09-1800 min
Algocracy and Transhumanism Podcast81 – Consumer Credit, Big Tech and AI Crime
In today’s episode, I talk to Nikita Aggarwal about the legal and regulatory aspects of AI and algorithmic governance. We focus, in particular, on three topics: (i) algorithmic credit scoring; (ii) the problem of ‘too big to fail’ tech platforms and (iii) AI crime. Nikita is a DPhil (PhD) candidate at the Faculty of Law at Oxford, as well as a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute’s Digital Ethics Lab. Her research examines the legal and ethical challenges due to emerging, data-driven technologies, with a particular focus on machine learning in consumer lending. Prior to entering academia...2020-09-1800 min
The Media ShowOur love-hate relationship with the tech giantsThe tech giants receive a lot of bad press, have been accused of operating monopolies, and are even seen as security risks. So what attracts the billions of people who use TikTok, Facebook or Apple every day - often with huge enthusiasm? Plus Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite, embarks on a public battle with Apple. And is Facebook too big to fail?Panel: Richard Waterworth, TikTok’s General Manager for the UK & Europe; Laura Edwards, TikTok star; Shona Ghosh, Senior Tech Editor for Business Insider; Oliver Baker, co-founder of Intelivita; Nikita Aggarwal from the Oxford Internet In...2020-08-1938 min