Hosted by Eleanor Drage and Kerry Mackereth, The Good Robotic is a podcast which explores the various advanced intersections between gender, feminism and know-how. On this episode, Eleanor and Kerry speak to Arjun Subramonian on queer approaches to AI and computing.
Arjun Subramonian on queer approaches to AI and computing
On this episode we speak to Arjun Subramonian, a Pc Science PhD pupil at UCLA conducting machine studying analysis and a member of the grassroots organisation Queer in AI. On this episode we focus on why they joined Queer in AI, how Queer in AI helps construct synthetic intelligence directed in direction of higher, extra inclusive, and queer futures, why ‘bias’ can’t be seen as a purely technical drawback, and why Queer in AI rejected Google sponsorship.
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Arjun Subramonian (pronouns: they/them) is a brown queer, agender PhD pupil on the College of California, Los Angeles. Their analysis focuses on graph illustration studying, equity, and machine studying (ML) ethics. They’re a core organizer of Queer in AI, co-founded QWER Hacks, and train machine studying and AI ethics at Title I colleges in LA. In addition they like to run, hike, observe and doc wildlife, and play the ukulele.
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 various advanced intersections between gender, feminism and know-how.
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