This is a guest post by Victor Zhenyi Wang. Victor worked as a data scientist in global health and development at IDinsight India. He is currently a Masters student at the Blum Center for Developing Economies at UC Berkeley. He is interested in technology policy, participatory approaches to AI, and digital public infrastructure. He studied mathematics...

This is a guest post by Victor Zhenyi Wang. Victor worked as a data scientist in global health and development at IDinsight India. He is currently a Masters student at the Blum Center for Developing Economies at UC Berkeley. He is interested in technology policy, participatory approaches to AI, and digital public infrastructure. He studied mathematics...

C: Tell me a little bit about your college experience. How did you get interested in this work originally?  E: Good question. It kind of started for me in high school actually. I took my first philosophy class when I was 16 or 17, and I loved it. But one of the things that we read in that class was an article by Peter Singer, who was a key...

C: Tell me a little bit about your college experience. How did you get interested in this work originally?  E: Good question. It kind of started for me in high school actually. I took my first philosophy class when I was 16 or 17, and I loved it. But one of the things that we read in that class was an article by Peter Singer, who was a key...

You have probably heard that Google had to suspend it’s Gemini image feature after showing people black Nazis and female popes: Well I have a simple explanation for what happened here. Namely, the folks at Google wanted to avoid an embarrassment that they’d been involved with multiple times, and seen others get involved with,...

You have probably heard that Google had to suspend it’s Gemini image feature after showing people black Nazis and female popes: Well I have a simple explanation for what happened here. Namely, the folks at Google wanted to avoid an embarrassment that they’d been involved with multiple times, and seen others get involved with,...