96. Taking Control of the Data Pipeline (ft. Meredith Whittaker, Salome Viljoen)

Published: Aug. 25, 2021, 9:17 p.m.

b'Intro: Contra \\u2013 This Machine Kills (remixed) https://contra805.bandcamp.com/track/this-machine-kills\\n\\nWe\\u2019re joined by two of the sharpest minds on the politics of AI and data governance\\u2014Meredith Whittaker and Salom\\xe9 Viljoen\\u2014to chat about the relationship between corporate gatekeepers and academic research, the construction and infrastructure of data, AI as a universal hammer for all nails, how the state enforces Silicon Valley\\u2019s power, and what it would take to seize the data pipeline from private capital for the public good. \\nThis discussion expands on a recent article we published in Nature: Everyone should decide how their digital data are used\\u2014not just tech companies | Jathan Sadowski, Salom\\xe9 Viljoen, Meredith Whittaker: nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01812-3 \\n\\nSalom\\xe9\\u2019s profile: law.columbia.edu/faculty/salome-viljoen\\nAnd Twitter: twitter.com/salome_viljoen_ \\nMeredith\\u2019s profile: ainowinstitute.org/people/meredith-whittaker.html \\nAnd Twitter: twitter.com/mer__edith \\n\\nSubscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! patreon.com/thismachinekills \\n\\nGrab your TMK gear: bonfire.com/store/this-machine-kills-podcast/ \\n\\nHosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl)'