Data & Society

Mar 31 2025 126 ep. 44 mins 1.9k

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Presenting timely conversations about the purpose and power of technology that bridge our interdisciplinary research with broader public conversations about the societal implications of data and automation. For more information, visit datasociety.net.

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AI Assistant or AI Boss? w/ Data & Society

Mar 31 2025 43 mins

In this episode of Computer Says Maybe, host Alix Dunn speaks with Data & Society Labor Futures researchers Aiha Nguyen and Alexandra Mateescu, who recently authored Generative AI and Labor: Power, Hype, and Value at Work. They discuss how automation is now being used as a threat against workers, and how certain types of labor are being devalued by AI — especially (shocking) trad

Connective (t)Issues: Stories of Digitality, Infrastructures, and Resistance | Public Panel

Mar 27 2025 62 mins

Physical and digital infrastructures have raised tensions around the world, seeding land disputes, climate effects, and disrupting social fabrics. Yet they are also intertwined with myths of progress, transformation, and speculation. What does this friction reveal? How can the stories we tell about infrastructures illuminate problems and lead us toward solutions? What do these stor

[Databite No. 161] Red Teaming Generative AI Harm

Mar 03 2025 60 mins

What exactly is generative AI (genAI) red-teaming, what strategies and standards should guide its implementation, and how can it protect the public interest? In this conversation, Lama Ahmad, Camille François, Tarleton Gillespie, Briana Vecchione, and Borhane Blili-Hamelin examine red-teaming’s place in the evolving landscape of genAI evaluation and governance.

The Taiwan Bottleneck w/ Brian Chen

Feb 24 2025 37 mins

In time for this year’s RightsCon, Data & Society Policy Director Brian J. Chen joins Alix Dunn of Computer Says Maybe for a conversation about the process of advanced chip manufacture, its entanglement with US economic policy, and the colonial making of Taiwan’s chip supremacy.

Living in the Shadow of AI and Data (Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia) | Network Book Forum

Nov 19 2024 62 mins

Code Dependent spans stories from across the globe and calls attention to the voices of ordinary people as they navigate the everyday challenges of living with data-driven systems and work to reclaim their agency. In the process, author Madhumita Murgia invites a deeper reflection on these systems and how they interact with human ethics and judgment. Learn more in this Data & Socie

Data & Society at 10: Foreseeable Futures

Oct 16 2024 88 mins

Foreseeable Futures, held on September 26, 2024, was a celebration of Data & Society at 10, where we celebrated our first decade with our incredible network of alumni, friends, and supporters.

[Databite 160] Black Maternal Health is in Crisis. Can Technology Help?

Jul 22 2024 58 mins

In this Databite discussion, Mukogosi spoke with Dr. Mary Fleming and Ijeoma Uche about the facts and future of data-driven maternal care for Black patients. Reckoning with the decline of Black maternal health amid advancements in clinical technologies, they discussed the implications of an increasingly data-driven response to the Black maternal health crisis.

[Podcast] The Formalization of Social Precarities

May 16 2024 81 mins

The Formalization of Social Precarities podcast explores platformization from the point of view of precarious gig workers in the Majority World. This conversation was moderated by Aiha Nguyen and Murali Shanmugavelan featuring the voices of Ambika Tandon, Ludmilla Costhek Abílio, and Ananya Raihan. You will also be hearing the experience of two platform workers interviewed for thi

[Databite 159] Doing the Work: Therapeutic Labor, Teletherapy, and the Platformization of Mental Health Care

May 09 2024 60 mins

Data & Society’s report, Doing the Work: Therapeutic Labor, Teletherapy, and the Platformization of Mental Health Care, written by Livia Garofalo, explores how these new arrangements of therapeutic labor are affecting how therapists provide care and make a living in the US. By focusing on the experiences of providers who practice teletherapy and work for digital platforms, our re

[Databite 158] Adaptation | Generative AI's Labor Impacts

Apr 23 2024 59 mins

Predominant narratives that cast workers as replaceable hide the ways in which workers are actively responding to generative AI. Many build new skills and tools to their advantage while others sabotage, counteract and otherwise circumvent these systems. The relationship workers have with technology is much more dynamic, contested and layered. Narratives that cast workers as replace