103 Meredith Whittaker: Technology acts political and hides behind objectivity

About this episode

Meredith Whittaker discusses the intersection of technology and politics, emphasizing the importance of objectivity in tech.

With us today is Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation who serves on its board of directors. She was formerly the Minderoo Research Professor at New York University (NYU), and the co-founder and faculty director of the AI Now Institute. She also served as a senior advisor on AI to Chair Lina Khan at the Federal Trade Commission. Whittaker was employed at Google for 13 years, where she founded Google’s Open Research group and co-founded the M-Lab. In 2018, she was a core organizer of the Google Walkouts and resigned from the company in July 2019. She now runs Signal, the leading global privacy-orientated NGO. Transcript of the episode: Expand the transcript 00:00:06 Domen Savič / Citizen D Welcome everybody, it’s the 10th of September 2024, but we are releasing this episode of Citizen D podcast on the 15th of October 2024. With us today is Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation who serves on its board of directors. She was formerly the Minderoo Research Professor at New York University (NYU), and the co-founder and faculty director of the AI Now Institute. She also served as a senior advisor on AI to Chair Lina Khan at the Federal Trade…

People in this episode

Host: Domen Savič

Guest: Meredith Whittaker

Topics covered

• technology
• politics
• privacy
• AI
• activism

Keywords

• Meredith Whittaker
• Signal Foundation
• AI
• Google
• privacy
• activism
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Signal Foundation, New York University, AI Now Institute, Federal Trade Commission, Google

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