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A tech ethicist & comedian tackle the human side of tech. In this episode, David Ryan Polgar (tech ethicist) and Joe Leonardo (UCB comedian) discuss the thorny emerging tech issue of digital phenotyping! Digital phenotyping is analyzing HOW you use your digital device (speech patterns, volume of texts, pattern changes, how your scroll) to make correlations to depression, suicidality, and more. Is digital phenotyping a canary in the smartphone?! Or is it prone to dangerous false positives?! What about our expectation of privacy? How will this be used with teens?! Does this impact our freedom of mind?! Does this known surveillance alter the underlying behavior?! FUNNY AS TECH Our Relationship With Technology is Messy...Let's Discuss! Each week, tech ethicist David Ryan Polgar and comedian Joe Leonardo take a deep dive into a complex tech issue that is tripping up society. The show has dealt with AR, VR, AI, IoT, diversity in tech, tech addiction, media literacy, future of work, and much more. Previous guests and collaborators have included CNN's Laurie Segall, Randi Zuckerberg, Baratunde Thurston, Nir Eyal, Manoush Zomorodi, Douglas Rushkoff, Joe Lubin, Tracy Chou, Bridget Carey, and Chuck Nice. Outside of podcast recordings, Funny as Tech holds regular live performance in NYC (at the Peoples Improv Theater. Funny as Tech also performs on the road with conferences and special events. Have a question? Info@FunnyAsTech.com FUNNY AS TECH https://www.funnyastech.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FunnyAsTech Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/FunnyAsTech/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FunnyAsTech/ Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-328735920 iTunes: apple.co/2mAxIAV Google Play: bit.ly/2C7afyg Signup to our monthly mailing list: https://funnyastech.us17.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=43f37d897394e33ea3668b208&id=0d2e9ef88e