Ep 24 - Ethics in Algorithms & Trans Folks On The Front Lines with Emily Gorcenski (@EmilyGorcenski)

Ep 24 - Ethics in Algorithms & Trans Folks On The Front Lines with Emily Gorcenski (@EmilyGorcenski)

Threat Surface

25/02/2017 6:15AM

Episode Synopsis "Ep 24 - Ethics in Algorithms & Trans Folks On The Front Lines with Emily Gorcenski (@EmilyGorcenski)"

Emily Gorcenski (@EmilyGorcenski) is a data scientist, a speaker on ethics in technology and an activist for trans issues. We talk about what responsibilities tech workers have in building algorithms that could profile users, the Trump dialect, using inferred behaviors to deliver a list of users to governments, trans protections now at risk under Trump, the ethics of the Internet of Things, working as a defense contractor and having once been a libertarian tech bro. https://stratechery.com/2017/manifestos-and-monopolies/ https://medium.com/@DaleBeran/4chan-the-skeleton-key-to-the-rise-of-trump-624e7cb798cb#.31ksjt90t https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber Support the show! patreon.com/threatsurface audibletrial.com/threatsurface

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