Podcasts by Good Code

Camille Francois on Disinformation Campaigns from 2020-03-10T08:00

How do foreign actors spread disinformation online? What have we learned from the campaign of Russian meddling into the 2016 US Presidential elections, and are we ready for what’s coming in 2020...

Alexis Wichowski on Net States from 2020-03-03T09:00

Big Tech companies have grown beyond their core products and services — influencing not only our digital lives, but our physical lives, and working in territory that used to be govern...

Yaël Eisenstat on Facebook and Political Ads from 2020-02-18T09:00

Last October, Facebook announced that it would not fact-check political ads. And that decision angered a lot of people: outside, but also inside the company. To talk about Facebook's ...

Jake Goldenfein on Google Scholar from 2020-02-11T09:00

From Gmail and Google Documents to Google’s Cloud, our reliance on Google services has extended to more and more realms of our lives. And academia is not immune from this growing depe...

Lisa Lewin on Making Boards of Directors Care from 2020-02-04T09:00

What can board of directors of big tech companies do to push for more ethical practices in the field? Lisa Lewin is the managing partner at Ethical Ventures, a management consulting firm. Becaus...

Daniel Kelley on Harassment in Online Gaming from 2020-01-28T09:00

Over two billion people play games globally. And live, multi-players games are more than just games: they are social platforms, where people interact, chat, and get harassed. Daniel K...

Judith Duportail on Tinder's Algorithm from 2020-01-21T09:00

How do we love online? What does dating and love look like in an era dominated by swipes, likes and matches ? In may ways, online dating has become the new norm. And Tinder, our new r...

Tracy Dennis-Tiwary on Screens and Relationships from 2020-01-14T09:00

What is screen time doing to our relationships? More specifically,  what is us being on our screens so much, doing to our kids? What happens when mothers, fathers, caregivers disappea...

The Tech Worker Uprising from 2020-01-07T09:00

In 2018 and 2019, tech workers stood up, pushed back and said no, to projects and working environments they disagreed with. At Amazon, Google, Microsoft: they said no to government contracts, no...

Cara LaPointe on The Ethics of Blockchain from 2019-12-24T09:00

Ever wished you found the perfect Blockchain 101 presentation? Well this episode’s for you. Cara LaPointe is a non-resident fellow at the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation at Georget...

Shiri Azenkot on Accessible Virtual Realities from 2019-12-17T09:00

How can we make virtual, augmented and mixed realities accessible to all, including people with disabilities? That's a question that's been on Shiri Azenkot's mind for years now...

Desmond Patton on Social Media and Gang Violence from 2019-12-10T09:00

Young people spend a lot of time on social media, where they express happiness, pain, trauma, grief and anger. What do social media really say about them? To what extent do they facil...

The UN on Humanitarian Data from 2019-12-03T09:00

In the quiet city of The Hague, in the Netherlands, is the United Nations Centre for Humanitarian Data. It's not a traditional data center: there is no data storage here. Think of it as an innov...

Niva Elkin-Koren on Content Moderation from 2019-11-26T09:00

What is being filtered out of our online platforms? What don't we get to see? That's a question that our guest worries about a lot. Niva Elkin-Koren is a Professor of Law at the University of Ha...

Gilles de Kerchove on 5G from 2019-11-19T09:00

5G is coming. With increasing speed and decreased latency, it will power a vast array of new services. And with new possibilities will come new vulnerabilities. Tech companies and governments ar...

Season 1 Summary from 2019-10-22T08:00

Season 1 wrapped up in late June. Over the summer, we worked hard on new content, and we’re very excited about what’s coming. So stay tuned… But before we dive into Season 2, we wanted to look b...

Diana Freed on Technology-Enabled Domestic Violence from 2019-06-25T08:00

In this episode, the last of season 1, we speak with Diana Freed. She’s a PhD student at Cornell Tech, and part of a group of researchers working on technology-enabled intimate partner violence....

Salam Shahin on Refugees and Technology from 2019-06-20T08:00

In this episode, released on World Refugee Day, we talk about the ways in which digital technologies can be used to improve the lives of refugees, and we explore some of their inherent risks. Mo...

Jamie Metzl on Genetic Engineering from 2019-06-11T08:00

In this episode, we talk about genetic engineering and the future of our species as we enter these uncharted territories. Our guest is Jamie Metzl, a technology futurist and Senior Fellow at the...

Isabelle Zaugg on Digitally Disadvantaged Languages from 2019-06-04T08:00

In this episode, we speak with Isabelle Zaugg, a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University. She studies minority languages, and the ways in which digital technologies can contribute to thei...

Ifeoma Ajunwa on Quantifying Workers from 2019-05-28T08:00

Throughout History, workers have always been quantified: from the time they spent at work, to their productivity, while on the job. But digital technologies have brought this process to a whole ...

Jessica Vitak on Digital Personal Assistants from 2019-05-21T08:00

The Internet of Things is making its way into our workplaces, our cars, our homes. Everything is getting "smarter" around us. And many of us are turning to digital personal assistants to help wi...

David Robinson on Algorithms in the Courtoom from 2019-05-14T08:00

In this episode, we speak with David Robinson, the managing director and cofounder of Upturn, a nonprofit promoting "equity and justice" in digital technology. He is currently on leave from Uptu...

Julia Powles on Scrutinizing Big Tech from 2019-05-07T08:00

In this episode, we speak with Julia Powles, an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Western Australia, in Perth. The bulk of her work, both as a journalist and as a law and technolog...

Solon Barocas on Teaching Ethics in Data Science from 2019-04-30T08:00

In this episode, we speak with Solon Barocas, an Assistant Professor in Information Science at Cornell University. He is currently on leave at Microsoft Research in New York. But he will be retu...

Timnit Gebru on the limits of Artificial Intelligence from 2019-04-23T08:00

In this episode, we speak with Timnit Gebru, a research scientist in the Ethical Artificial Intelligence team at Google AI. We talk about algorithmic biases, and Gebru explains why she created t...

Deborah Estrin on Small Data from 2019-04-16T08:00

In this episode, we speak with Deborah Estrin. She’s a professor of Computer Science and an Associate Dean at Cornell Tech. She works on "small data" : the individual traces we leave behind us o...

Ellen Goodman on Smart Cities from 2019-04-09T08:00

In this episode, we speak with Ellen Goodman. She’s the co-director of the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy and Law, in Camden, New Jersey. And at the moment, she’s conducting research o...

Peter Asaro on Killer Robots from 2019-04-02T08:00

In this episode, we speak with Peter Asaro. He’s a Philosopher and the vice-chair and co-founder of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control. There, he is lobbying for an international...

Luke Stark on Emotions in the Digital Realm from 2019-03-26T08:00

In this episode, we speak with Luke Stark. He’s a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research Montreal and a Historian of Computing and Artificial Intelligence. He looks at the ways in which H...

Helen Nissenbaum on Post-Consent Privacy from 2019-03-19T08:00

In this episode, we speak with Philosopher Helen Nissenbaum. She’s a professor of Information Science at Cornell Tech, and the director of the Digital Life Initiative. She has spent the last two...

Julia Angwin on Investigating Technology from 2019-03-12T08:00

In this episode (our very first!), we speak with journalist Julia Angwin. After years covering technology at The Wall Street Journal and ProPublica, she is now the co-founder and editor-in-chief...

Trailer: Introducing Good Code from 2019-02-11T21:27

Introducing our new weekly podcast on ethics in our digital world. 

Every Tuesday, we'll look at ways in which our increasingly digital societies could go terribly wrong. And we'll speak ...