Submitted by A. Arumugam on Thu, 29/06/2023 - 14:32
On Wednesday, 1 March 2023, we invited students and the broader Cambridge community to hold a conversation with human rights podcasters Matt Mahmoudi and Elanor Drage. Matt and Elanor shared with us about the opportunities and challenges offered by podcasting in the struggle for human rights. Matt drew from his experience working with Amnesty International and lectureship with Cambridge Sociology. Meanwhile, Eleanor, a researcher at the University of Cambridge Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, spoke to us largely about feminist ideas behind the effort to make artificial intelligence safer for everyone. Elanor is also the co-host of The Good Robot Podcast, where she interviews top scholars and technologists about AI ethics, has appeared on popular shows such as The Guilty Feminist, and is a TikToker for All The Citizens' data rights channel. This event was organised by the Declarations— a student-led initiative convened by the Centre of Governance and Human Rights at the University of Cambridge. At CGHR we are reimagining how justice, solidarity and citizen voice can flourish with or against technology.