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Predictive AI w/ Carissa Véliz, University of Oxford Professor

Predictive AI w/ Carissa Véliz, University of Oxford Professor

We sat down with Carissa Véliz, author of Privacy is Power and University of Oxford associate professor, to talk about how predictive AI will make a ‘meritocracy’ impossible, how lifelike chat bots are designed to deceive you, and the importance of privacy in the digital age. Carissa Véliz is an associate professor at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford, a renowned author and speaker, a board member of the Proton Foundation, and a member of UNESCO’s Women 4 Ethical AI. Her new book, ‘Prophecy,’ comes out on April 21st. Prophecy is about how extensive use of predictive analytics is undermining our abilities to defy the odds, making systems unaccountable, and increasing risk in business and society while creating a false sense of security. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/759692/prophecy-by-carissa-veliz/ Some references in this video can be found on her website: https://www.carissaveliz.com/research https://www.carissaveliz.com/writing

Defending Privacy w/ Cindy Cohn, EFF's Executive Director

Defending Privacy w/ Cindy Cohn, EFF's Executive Director

Privacy Guides sat down with EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn to reflect on her over 30 years of service defending privacy and digital civil liberties at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the importance of community in activist spaces, and the big picture in our fight for privacy. Cindy Cohn’s memoir, Privacy’s Defender, is now available at a variety of retailers: https://www.eff.org/Privacys-Defender In “Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance,” Cindy weaves her own personal story with her role as a leading legal voice representing the rights and interests of technology users, innovators, whistleblowers, and researchers during the Crypto Wars of the 1990s, battles over NSA’s dragnet internet spying revealed in the 2000s, and the fight against FBI gag orders.