Podcasts Government Future Hindsight People Power and AI: Chris Wiggins & Matt Jones

People Power and AI: Chris Wiggins & Matt Jones

Published: May 18, 2023, noon

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Thursday, May 18th, 2023

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Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones are co-authors of How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms. Chris is an associate professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University and the New York Times\\u2019s chief data scientist and Matt is a professor of history at Columbia. Together, they taught a course called \\u201cData: Past, Present, and Future," and their book is an extension thereof. We discuss the history of how data is made; the relationship between data and truth; and the unstable three-player game between corporate, state, and people power.\\xa0

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We are currently in an unstable and unpredictable three-player game between state power, corporate power, and people power. In fact, we have a lot of collective influence via the way we construct norms. Our constant human activity is the grist of the mill for machine learning. Corporations do not have all the power. Still, the mix between advertising and data has created a lot of the most pressing concerns in the world\\u2019s algorithmically mediated reality.

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Credits:\\xa0

Host: Mila Atmos\\xa0

Guests: Chris Wiggins & Matt Jones

Executive Producer: Mila Atmos

Producer: Zack Travis

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