Germ Syllabus
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<p>The founders of Germ Network, Tessa Brown and Brett Duboff, talk to guests and community members about the ethics, technologies, and communities that make social media—for better and worse.</p>
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1/31/2023
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February 14, 2023
Week 10: Oh Shit, The Future
<p>On the last episode of GermSyllabus, we take a look into the rapidly approaching technological future. We chat about accelerations in AI, the influence of the Effective Altruism movement and its relationship to FTX founder Sam Bankman Fried, and trends in trust and safety, privacy, and responsible algorithms. Thank you for joining us!</p>
February 14, 2023
Week 9: Encryption & Wellbeing (with guest Riana Pfefferkorn)
<p>In this episode, Tessa and Brett host Riana Pfefferkorn, encryption policy expert, civil liberties lawyer, Stanford Internet Observatory researcher–and Germ advisor! We discuss Riana’s research into content moderation and reporting in end-to-end encrypted systems, and touch on new updates from Apple that extend end-to-end encryption for their users.</p>
February 7, 2023
Week 8: Content Moderation (with guest Shankar Ponnekanti)
<p>In this episode, we chat with Shankar Ponnekanti, the CTO of Trust Lab, a new startup that makes machine-learning-powered content moderation tools for third parties. (Trust CEO Tom Siegel is also one of Germ’s advisors.) We chat about the kinds of work Trust Lab does, why Shankar’s career at Google led him into Trust and Safety work, and the technical and leadership challenges he confronts as CTO.</p>
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- What is Germ Syllabus?
<p>The founders of Germ Network, Tessa Brown and Brett Duboff, talk to guests and community members about the ethics, technologies, and communities that make social media—for better and worse.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
This podcast updates daily.
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