#AcademicRunPlaylist - 3/3/24

It was a nice warm day in Boston, which meant it was a good day to go out for a decent run with talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was an excellent slate of talks on algorithms in the real world at the Yale Information Society Project with Ekaterina Babintseva (algorithms, heuristics, and Soviet cybernetic psychology), Jonathan Weinberg (credit ratings and alternative data), and Catherine Powell (race, place, and cyberspace). Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hp8Rq6cpe0

Next was a great group of talks on trusting algorithmic sources at Yale ISP with Gabriel Grill (performativity of testing), Kadija Ferryman, PhD and Odia Kane, MPH (algorithmic accounts in medical AI), Kushang Mishra (data-driven agriculture in India), and Alexander Campolo and Katia Schwerzmann (data as example in machine learning). Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQbyZcyGM_M

Next was an incredible pair of talks on data work at Yale ISP by Karen Levy (rules, loopholes, and autonomous systems) and Ira Anjali Anwar (algorithmic classification the valuation of labor in the gig economy). I highly recommend both, and if you needed more of a reason to watch Levy has the first extended, on-topic reference to Air Bud I think I've ever seen in an academic talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLGaBzFn9rM

Next was a nice trio of talks on possible computing futures at Yale ISP with Angelina Wang and Sayash Kapoor (against predictive optimization), Jonnie Penn (decomputerization as détente), and Hannah Zeavin (predictive control and attachment theory in prison) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-1SlfhKTaE

Next was an interesting talk by Suresh Venkatasubramanian on the AI bill of rights and technology policymaking more broadly at Yale ISP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-pW6GpsTeA&t=6s

Next was a wide-ranging talk by Helen Nissenbaum on privacy vs. secrecy and the data governance landscape at Yale ISP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-346t8IQZPQ

Next was a fantastic talk by Daniel Solove on murky consent at TeachPrivacy. Solove rightly points out the fiction of consent, and why embracing that fiction can lead to a more effective privacy law. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk1-tWz4oW0

Next was a wonderful talk by Thomas Piketty on his book "Capital and Ideology" at the LSE. Even if you've heard Piketty speak on this work before, this is a particularly good talk, spending time on some ridiculous examples of inequality in 19th and early 20th century Sweden that demand to be heard. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwyYzewiGh8

Last was a feisty conversation with Steven Kaplan and Nell Minow on proxy voting rules, corporate governance, and more at the Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkpbz-xBfTA