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Democratic governance of technology: myth or reality ? With Dr Mar Hicks from the University of Virginia School of Data Science

November 3, 2025 · 27 min

Welcome back to the last episode of this special series exploring the relationship between power and technology! We now know that power and technology are intertwined and led to the rise of techno-oligarchy in the United States. Beyond…
The TESCREAL to fascism pipeline with Adrienne Williams from the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)

October 7, 2025 · 33 min

Reading about TESCREAL feels like reading a bad sci-fi storyline written by a man with a god complex. Unfortunately, it’s real: a movement that allows its proponents to use the threat of human extinction to justify expensive or harmful…
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September 16, 2025 · 28 min

After Trump was elected and tech oligarchs like Elon Musk, an unelected person, started to get power in decision making at the White House, the topic of technofascism got very popular. But this political trend of leveraging technology to…
The datafication of refugees: humanitarian agencies & biometrics with Zara Rahman from the Superrr Lab

February 18, 2025 · 36 min

Biometrics – our fingerprints, faces, irises, for instance – are increasingly used to verify identity. But what happens when this data collection is applied to vulnerable populations, like refugees and asylum seekers, in ways that can…
Mapping for justice: from cartography to GIS, with Cathy Richards from the Open Environmental Data Project

February 7, 2025 · 38 min

If cartography, the ancestor of GIS, already displayed colonial patterns and racist stereotypes back in the day, why would the digital legacy of maps be any different? Maps have an authoritative value and hold power through the…

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How MyBranz fights fake online reviews to save the planet — and your wallet with Janani Kumar, Founder of MyBranz

January 31, 2025 · 24 min

A few months ago, in August 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a final rule banning fake reviews and testimonials, a rule that will allow to deter AI-generated fake reviews by prohibiting fake or false consumer reviews…
Quit Clicking Kids: protecting child influencers through policy with Chris McCarty, founder of Quit Clicking Kids

January 24, 2025 · 30 min

Since #KOSA, protecting kids online has continued to be a very hot topic. However, we often overlook the influence industry that also impacts kids online, for instance with the emergence of thousands of YouTube family channels. Horror…
How existing safety mitigation safeguards fail in LLMs with Khaoula Chehbouni, PhD Researcher at McGill and MILA

January 17, 2025 · 37 min

Large Language Models, or LLMs, may be the most popular type of AI systems, often seen as an alternative to search engines, even though they should not as the information they throw at users only resemble and mimic human speech and is not…
Privacy under attack: how the Tor Project fights digital surveillance, with Raya S. & Pavel Zoneff

January 10, 2025 · 34 min

We’re all very used to being surveilled by now, especially through surveillance capitalism, or the commodification of our personal data - our age, location, mental state, shopping habits, tax bracket, are collected through various apps and…
Queer Arab History, social media, and representation with Marwan Kaabour from Takweer

December 17, 2024 · 28 min

Queer Arabs are often portrayed as either hated by their own Arab community or as Western imports as if Queerness came along with colonialism. And online, queer voices are mostly from western countries and don’t represent Queer Arabs…
History of tech, power relations, & archiving for social justice with Dr Jeffrey Yost from the Charles Babbage Institute

December 3, 2024 · 42 min

Technology narratives are set in the present, and all of their promises set in the near future. We’ve heard about flying cars, automated jobs, robots able to annihilate Humanity, robots able to save Humanity, and went through many hype…
Rethinking AI through Indigenous culture with Dane Malenfant from McGill University & MILA

November 26, 2024 · 32 min

An interesting thing about AI systems is that without a deliberately designed structure to promote the concept of sharing, AI systems will focus solely on maximizing their individual rewards, even if this prevents them from successfully…

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About the show

Shifting the narrative from Big Tech to Responsible Tech by sharing & archiving the work of change makers. At the intersection of technology and social justice, Activists Of Tech is a seasonal weekly podcast dedicated to the amplification and archival of minority voices among activists, thought leaders, academics, and practitioners of responsible tech. Shifting the narrative from Big Tech to responsible tech takes honesty: this is a "say it as it is" type of podcast, and no topic is too taboo not to be named and addressed. The topics covered encompass a variety of responsible tech areas and focus on social justice, AI harm, AI bias, AI regulation and advocacy, minorities in tech, gender equality, tech and democracy, social media, and algorithmic recommendations, to name a few. We also talk about solutions and how to make tech inclusive and beneficial for all.