All Tech Is Human 2018
who it's for
data scientists, designers, educators, city data teams, product managers, journalists, startup founders
topics
bias in training data; curated pro-social datasets; geo-located mobile games; Scratch and Unity education; emotion-driven game design; explainable and fair algorithms; IRB-style testing protocols; tech safety regulation standards; content moderation practices; provenance for news
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Machines of Love & Grace – Building Truly Inclusive AI | Rebecca Woodmass, Bella Wang, Amanda Levendowski, Nell Watson, John C. Havens | 11m |
Argues that bias lives in the training data and not just the model, citing 1.6 million Enron emails used for NLP, Princeton word-embedding findings that equate… | ||
| Teaching Ethical Tech – Intentionally Educating the Next Generation | Liz Schiller, Devin Jackson, Lauri Goldkind, Douglas Ng, Marcus Del Valle | 13m |
A class builds a geo-located mobile game built in Scratch and Unity that requires about two hours of walking to collect student-made sprites and coded “healthy… | ||
| Playful Process – Designing Ethical Games and Interaction | Pamela Pavliscak, Mitu Khandaker, Karen Schrier, Amy Chen | 44m |
Panel documents concrete tools and pilots: an eight‑city game jam and student prototypes (due Monday) that target complex emotions like pity, jealousy and… | ||
| Sara Holoubek – All Tech Is Human 2018 | Sara Holoubek | 10m |
A concrete claim: about 40,000 deaths a year in the U.S. motivates massive investment in tech fixes, yet there is no FDA‑style process for testing and… | ||
| How Does It Feel – The Experience of Using Technology | Christina Crook, Giancarlo Pitocco, Lisa Siewert, Charlie Oliver | 45m |
Panelists describe concrete responses: a Google query for "how does technology make us feel" returns "lonely" and workshops use images (an astronaut adrift, an… | ||
| Is Tech Unsafe at Any Speed? | Yoav Schlesinger | 12m |
Compares the 1956 Corvair failures and Ralph Nader’s 1965 Unsafe at Any Speed — 5.05 deaths per million road miles (~52,000 deaths/year) — to modern tech… | ||
| Algorithmic Government: How NYC Uses Data for Good | Sonam Velani | 15m |
New York City opens 1,600 datasets and runs NYCx innovation challenges that fund pilots — a German company wins a smart street EV charging prototype, city… | ||
| From Academia to Industry | Kathy Pham | 09m |
Career path moves from Google and IBM into founding the US Digital Service and teaching product management at Harvard while co-leading initiatives like the… | ||
| Keeping It Real – Technology's Impact on Trustworthy News | Andrew Gruen, Cennydd Bowles, Mo Johnson, Paul Glader, Joni Siani | 53m |
Panel argues major platforms now act as news arbiters and cites concrete markers: Facebook’s stock dip of $100 billion loss, teams of 17 engineers shaping… | ||
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