Welcome to MTM’s Podcast!

The Migration and Technology Monitor presents a podcast that centers on the deployment of technology and how it impacts the lives of people affected by it. Technology is presented as a solution to all our problems, an inevitable part of life. Yet more and more, we see how automated decision-making, profiling of social media, massive data collection, and deepfakes are harming individuals and disrupting societies. Join us to meet the journalists, researchers, and tech developers from all around the world discussing problem and possible solutions for the most pressing issues of our time - always centering the human experience.

Episode 1: Digital Othering

AI-powered technologies need huge quantities of data to work. While many people still think that AI is neutral, study after study shows that technologies are biased. Not just because of how they are programmed, but because the data used to feed them contains biases, racism, and discriminatory patterns. AI also dramatically deepens societal rifts and infringes fundamental rights. What we are witnessing is Digital Othering.

In this podcast we explore how this looks in the real world and how people are already affected by Digital Othering. Four specialists share their observations and insights. Their greatest concern: If the human experience is taken out of the equation, technologies will remain tools of oppression rather than empowerment.

In this episode: Judith Cabrera, Grace Gichanga, Antonella Napolitano, Ankid Sarin, with host Florian Schmitz

Transcript Available here