Hosted by Eleanor Drage and Kerry Mackereth, The Good Robotic is a podcast which explores the numerous advanced intersections between gender, feminism and expertise. On this episode, Eleanor and Kerry speak to Abeba Birhane about altering computing cultures.
Abeba Birhane on altering computing cultures
On this episode Eleanor and Kerry converse to Abeba Birhane, senior analysis fellow at Mozilla, about how cognition extends past the mind, why why we have to flip questions like “why aren’t there sufficient black girls in computing” on their head and really remodel computing cultures, and why human behaviour is a fancy adaptive system that may’t at all times be modelled computationally.
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Abeba Birhane is a cognitive scientist researching human behaviour, social programs, and accountable and moral Synthetic Intelligence (AI). She not too long ago completed her PhD, the place she explored the challenges and pitfalls of automating human behaviour by way of important examination of present computational fashions and audits of huge scale datasets. She is at present a Senior Fellow in Reliable AI at Mozilla Basis. She is an interdisciplinary researcher and her analysis pursuits sit on the intersection of cognitive science, AI, advanced science, and theories of decoloniality. She can also be an Adjunct Lecturer/Assistant Professor on the Faculty of Pc Science at College School Dublin, Eire.
About The Good Robotic Podcast
Dr Eleanor Drage and Dr Kerry Mackereth are Analysis Associates on the Leverhulme Centre for the Way forward for Intelligence, the place they work on the Mercator-Stiflung funded undertaking on Fascinating Digitalisation. Beforehand, they had been Christina Gaw Postdoctoral Researchers in Gender and Expertise on the College of Cambridge Centre for Gender Research. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic they determined to co-found The Good Robotic Podcast to discover the numerous advanced intersections between gender, feminism and expertise.
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