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Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

9. The Racist Ghost in the Machine

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8783 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week, Madeline and Kenna talk about TikTok, robot overlords, and how white tech bros really are!

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

SOURCES:

https://nautil.us/issue/55/trust/are-algorithms-building-the-new-infrastructure-of-racism

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast.

0:28.5

I'm your host, Madeline. And I'm your co-host, Kenna.

0:36.7

Okay, Kenna, today I wanted to ask you about a movie I know we have both seen, and I love, Minority Report.

0:42.1

Oh, I think we were talking about this last episode we definitely were and I couldn't get it out of my head um you know the precogs obviously in

0:47.8

minority report yeah that's like basically they're like we are computers or computer people know you're going to commit a crime

0:58.0

so we got to arrest you before you commit the crime yeah pretty much i think that's a good summary of it

1:03.6

yeah the red ball remember oh gosh they they spit out these balls and they you know and it's a red ball means a murder's going to happen.

1:13.6

Why the balls?

1:15.5

They can just have like a screen that says murder.

1:18.8

No, the ball.

1:19.6

It's got to be a ping pong ball.

1:20.5

They got to do like a lottery style or like a what are those machines that's like Pee Wee herman had where like he would like wake up out of bed

1:29.4

and it'd be like a roly ball and then it'd like make his toes and then iron his pants and then like

1:35.2

i don't know like mow his lawn what are those machines called i forgot what they're called but i know

1:40.3

what you're talking about they're the complicated simple machines yes i Yes, I can't remember their names, but exactly. So yeah, I was thinking about the precogs, and I was thinking about

1:51.9

how they predict crime before it happens, and I realized that we actually have precogs now.

1:59.9

Whoa. We do.

2:01.4

We have them.

2:02.1

We have them.

2:03.1

It's just AI.

2:04.3

It's just artificial intelligence. Yeah, I was going to be like, it's probably just really banal and like just, I'm guessing just like quietly evil.

2:12.9

And not a, and not like, you know, movie action style evil where there is some sort of machine

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