Books
We’re continuously growing a list of books in responsible tech, organized by topic category.
Podcasts
20 responsible tech podcasts worth checking out.
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In this podcast from the Center for Humane Technology, co-hosts Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin expose how social media’s race for attention manipulates our choices, breaks down truth, and destabilizes our real-world communities.
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Interviews by Chris Till with researchers of all areas of digital culture and society.
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AI is everywhere right now: in our news feeds, our devices, our homes. The hype is spreading quickly to permeate every industry, and the executives of the world want to know, “Beyond the hype, what can this tech actually do for my business?”
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A weekly podcast for curious scrollers to reflect on the technical concerns, cultural trends and societal impact of social media.
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The Tech Humanist Show is a multi-media-format show often featuring a special guest and exploring topics like digital culture, data privacy, automation, human interfaces, artificial intelligence, and more. It's "everything about data and technology that shapes the human experience."
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First Contact with Laurie Segall
Laurie Segall, Silicon Valley’s go-to reporter and former CNN Senior Tech Correspondent, hosts First Contact - a weekly podcast series that explores the people and technology that are changing what it means to be human.
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We will explore many instances where some moral boundary was crossed, usually inadvertently, and what could or should have been done differently.
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Eye on A.I. is a biweekly podcast, hosted by longtime New York Times correspondent Craig S. Smith. In each episode, Craig will talk to people making a difference in artificial intelligence. The podcast aims to put incremental advances into a broader context and consider the global implications of the developing technology. AI is about to change your world, so pay attention.
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For a long time, tech culture has focused too narrowly on technical skills; this has resulted in a tech community that too often puts companies and code over people. Greater Than Code is a podcast that invites the voices of people who are not heard from enough in tech: women, people of color, trans and/or queer folks, to talk about the human side of software development and technology.
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Technically Human is a podcast about ethics and technology where I ask what it means to be human in the age of tech. Each week, I interview industry leaders, thinkers, writers, and technologists and I ask them about how they understand the relationship between humans and the technologies we create. We discuss how we can build a better vision for technology, one that represents the best of our human values.
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Radical AI is a podcast centering marginalized or otherwise radical voices in industry and the academy for dialogue, collaboration, and debate regarding the field of Artificial Intelligence Ethics and the relationship between the humanities and machine learning.
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It's the question of our times: How is technology impacting our humanity? "Should This Exist?" invites the creators of radical new technologies to set aside their business plan, and think through the human side: What is the invention’s greatest promise? And what could possibly go wrong?
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Listen to episodes of the Tech Policy Podcast, featuring interviews about current policy issues with experts in technology policy.
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A podcast about our messy relationship with technology. Hosted by tech ethicist David Ryan Polgar and comedian Joe Leonardo, and featuring a diverse range of experts about the ways that technology excites us, scares us, and confuses us. It's complicated.
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News, explanation and Interviews with academics, authors, business leaders, creatives and engineers on the subject of autonomous algorithms, artificial intelligence, machine learning, technology ethics and more.
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The Ethics in AI seminars are intended to facilitate this broad conversation, exploring ethical questions in AI in a truly interdisciplinary way that brings together students and leading experts from around the University.
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On the emerging & ever-shifting terrain of artificial intelligence & machine learning.
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A podcast about the automation of everything. Host Jennifer Strong and the team at MIT Technology Review look at what it means to entrust artificial intelligence with our most sensitive decisions.
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Talking Machines is your window into the world of machine learning. Your hosts, Katherine Gorman and Neil Lawrence, bring you clear conversations with experts in the field, insightful discussions of industry news, and useful answers to your questions. Machine learning is changing the questions we can ask of the world around us, here we explore how to ask the best questions and what to do with the answers.
Conversations in Responsible Tech
“Impact on mental health, distortion of shared reality & ability to make sense of the world, and that our innate biases are baked into so much of the tech ecosystem.”
Max Stossel
Center for Humane Technology (@Maxstossel)
“We must imbue the future of technology with justice, equity & empathy at it’s core
Flynn Coleman
International Human RightsLawyer, Speaker, Professor and author of A Human Algorithm (@FlynnColeman)
“The tech industry has made tremendous strides in the past few years in prioritizing harms related to cybersecurity, privacy ,hate speech and harassment. Tech companies now need to make similarly concerted efforts for issues such as mental health and well-being, polarization, environmental sustainability, racial justice, fairness and equity.”
Zvika Krieger
Director of Responsible Innovation at Facebook (@zvikakrieger)
Lack of diversity & representation of marginalized communities in tech”
Mia Shah-Dand
CEO, Lighthouse3 and founder of Women in AIEthics initiative (@MiaD)
“Equity and inclusion in technology are the most pressing and important topics related to responsible technology. There is still a largely homogenous group making key decisions about technology and its impact on society.”
Tess Posner
CEO of AI4ALL (@tessposner)
“I think that the most important topic in responsible tech is justice. Racial justice, social justice, economic justice, ecological justice.”
Dr.Mona Sloane
Sociologist, NYU (@mona_sloane)
“The tech industry has made tremendous strides in the past few years in prioritizing harms related to cybersecurity, privacy ,hate speech and harassment. Tech companies now need to make similarly concerted efforts for issues such as mental health and well-being, polarization, environmental sustainability, racial justice, fairness and equity.”
Zvika Krieger
Director of Responsible Innovation at Facebook (@zvikakrieger)
“Impact on mental health, distortion of shared realities and ability to make sense of the world, and that our innate biases are baked into so much of the tech ecosystem”
Max Stossel
Center for Humane Technology (@Maxstossel)
“Responsible Innovation: aligning product development with societal goals and respecting ethical boundaries; Ethical Use: making responsible decisions about third-party use; what is the responsibility of companies to decide and where do lawmakers need to step in?”
Marco Meyer
Director at Principia Advisory / Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of York
Topics in Responsible Tech
Design, Inclusion, Equity & Power
Accessibility
Affinity Groups
Anti-racist Technology
Civic Tech
Criminal Justice Reform
Data Feminism
Data Literacy
Design Justice
Digital Citizenship
Digital Divide
Digital Human Rights
Digital Twin
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
Ethical by Design
Ethically Aligned Design
Future of Work
Future of Education
Fourth Industrial Revolution
Ghost Worker
Human-centered Design
Human-centered AI
Human Rights Impact Assessments
Inclusive Design
Privacy by Design
Power Asymmetries
Product Inclusion
Surveillance Economy
Stakeholder Engagement
Workers Rights in the Digital
Economy
Governance & Ethics
Accountability
AI Bias
AI Explainability & Interpretability
Algorithmic Auditing Algorithmic
Algorithmic Harm
Bias
Cybersecurity
Data Governance
Data Trusts
Data agency and data provenance
Ethics Theater
Ethics Washing
Fairness in AI/ML
Privacy
Transparency in AI/ML
Trustworthy or Responsible AI
Robot Ethics
Singularity
Sustainability
Tech Equity
Tech Ethics
VR Ethics
Applications
AI Chatbots
Applied AI
Autonomous Vehicles
Automated Decision Making Systems (ADMS)
Black Box AI
Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)
Connected Infrastructure
Dynamic or Algorithmic Pricing
GovTech
Facial Recognition
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Public Interest Technology
Predictive Policing
Recommendation Systems
Scoring Systems
Smart Cities
Voice Recognition
Online Media
Attention Economy
Circular Economy
Cyberbullying, Cyberhate
Content/Online Speech Moderation
Deepfakes
Digital Wellness
Disinformation
Echo Chambers
E-waste
Filter Bubbles
Misinformation
Media Literacy
Polarization Online
Rabbit Holes
Section 230
Synthetic and Manipulated Media