Good Code
Good Code is a weekly podcast on ethics in our digital world.
We look at ways in which our increasingly digital societies could go terribly wrong, and we speak with those trying to prevent that. If you like TV shows, think of it as Black Mirror meets The Good Place: Dystopian scenarios, with a way out.
Good Code is a collaboration of Cornell Tech's Digital Life Initiative and visiting journalist Chine Labbe.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 24 minutes
- Episodes
- 33
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2020
Ifeoma Ajunwa on Quantifying Workers
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 new l…
Jessica Vitak on Digital Personal Assistants
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 with mu…
David Robinson on Algorithms in the Courtoom
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 Upturn, a…
Julia Powles on Scrutinizing Big Tech
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 technology res…
Solon Barocas on Teaching Ethics in Data Science
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 returning…
Timnit Gebru on the limits of Artificial Intelligence
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 the gr…
Deborah Estrin on Small Data
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 online…
Ellen Goodman on Smart Cities
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 on Sma…
Peter Asaro on Killer Robots
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 ban …
Luke Stark on Emotions in the Digital Realm
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 Humans…
Helen Nissenbaum on Post-Consent Privacy
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 deca…
Julia Angwin on Investigating Technology
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 of a…
Trailer: Introducing Good Code
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 with those t…