Artwork

Content provided by Dr Kerry McInerney and Dr Eleanor Drage, Dr Kerry McInerney, and Dr Eleanor Drage. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Dr Kerry McInerney and Dr Eleanor Drage, Dr Kerry McInerney, and Dr Eleanor Drage or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.
Player FM - Podcast App
Go offline with the Player FM app!

Why Machine Learning is Political with Louise Amoore

40:56
 
Share
 

Manage episode 343007492 series 2933689
Content provided by Dr Kerry McInerney and Dr Eleanor Drage, Dr Kerry McInerney, and Dr Eleanor Drage. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Dr Kerry McInerney and Dr Eleanor Drage, Dr Kerry McInerney, and Dr Eleanor Drage or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.

In this episode, we talk to Louise Amoore, professor of political geography at Durham and expert in how machine learning algorithms are transforming the ethics and politics of contemporary society. Louise tells us how politics and society have shaped computer science practices. This means that when AI clusters data and creates features and attributes, and when its results are interpreted, it reflects a particular view of the world. In the same way, social views about what is normal and abnormal in the world are being expressed through computer science practices like deep learning. She emphasises that computer science can solve ethical problems with help from the humanities, which means that if you work with literature, languages, linguistics, geography, politics and sociology, you can help create AIs that model the world differently.

  continue reading

88 episodes

Artwork
iconShare
 
Manage episode 343007492 series 2933689
Content provided by Dr Kerry McInerney and Dr Eleanor Drage, Dr Kerry McInerney, and Dr Eleanor Drage. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Dr Kerry McInerney and Dr Eleanor Drage, Dr Kerry McInerney, and Dr Eleanor Drage or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.

In this episode, we talk to Louise Amoore, professor of political geography at Durham and expert in how machine learning algorithms are transforming the ethics and politics of contemporary society. Louise tells us how politics and society have shaped computer science practices. This means that when AI clusters data and creates features and attributes, and when its results are interpreted, it reflects a particular view of the world. In the same way, social views about what is normal and abnormal in the world are being expressed through computer science practices like deep learning. She emphasises that computer science can solve ethical problems with help from the humanities, which means that if you work with literature, languages, linguistics, geography, politics and sociology, you can help create AIs that model the world differently.

  continue reading

88 episodes

All episodes

×
 
Loading …

Welcome to Player FM!

Player FM is scanning the web for high-quality podcasts for you to enjoy right now. It's the best podcast app and works on Android, iPhone, and the web. Signup to sync subscriptions across devices.

 

Quick Reference Guide