Unpacking Us

Asad Liaqat

This second season of Unpacking Us focuses on technology and development in the Global South. We're talking about how technological innovation is fueling growth in these countries, about how it's enabling exchanges, and products and transactions that we couldn't dream of a few years ago, and yet at the same time its uprooting livelihoods, spreading discord, dis-enfranchising segments of the population. We'll talk about financial inclusion, education, AI, politics, and I'm sure other areas as well. We'll talk to builders and doers and thinkers - and I hope we will all learn a lot in the process.

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Unpacking Us

Episodes (9)

Jul 21, 2024 Does AI Worsen Gender Inequities?
Nov 22, 2023 How Does Generative AI Represent the Global South?
Oct 27, 2023 How Will Parties and Voters Influence the Upcoming Election in Pakistan?

Unpacking Us

Jul 21, 2024
42 minutes
58 MB

Machine learning algorithms are increasingly being used to make highly consequential decisions for citizens of the Global South. I talk to Genevieve Smith about how algorithmic decision making in the realm of financial inclusion can lead to inequitable outcomes along gender lines, how that compares to the status quo, and how we can do better as practitioners and researchers. Genevieve Smith is the founding co-director of the Responsible and Equitable AI Initiative at the Berkley AI Research Lab and is also part of the faculty at Haas. She also serves as a Gender & AI Fellow at USAID...

Unpacking Us

Does AI Worsen Gender Inequities?

Asad Liaqat

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