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Gender Reveal

Episode 128: Alex Hanna

Gender Reveal

Tuck Woodstock

Lgbtq, Documentary, Queer, Personal Journals, Gender, Nonbinary, Society & Culture, Genderqueer, Transgender, Trans

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Tuck speaks with sociologist Alex Hanna (she/her). Topics include:

  • How claiming AI is “sentient” gives big tech companies more power
  • Privacy tips for trans folks and abortion-seekers (and why they’re not enough)
  • Using data science to predict who will win Drag Race
  • Literally what is the point of Dall-E?
  • Plus: Roller derby, Star Trek, and some Macedonian teenager’s repository of faces?

This Week in Gender: A brief message from Charles Barkley.

Find Alex on twitter @alexhanna and at alex-hanna.com. Learn more about DAIR at dair-institute.org.

Submit a piece of Theymail: a small message or ad that we’ll read on the show. Today’s message is from Rainbow Parenting.

Join our Patreon (patreon.com/gender) to get access to our new bonus podcast feed, plus our weekly newsletter and other fun perks.

Browse our nonprofit merch shop at bit.ly/gendermerch.

Join the Gender Detectives Slack at bit.ly/gender-slack.

Find episode transcripts and starter packs for new listeners at genderpodcast.com. We’re also on Twitter and Instagram @gendereveal.

Associate Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal)

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:06.5

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0:11.6

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0:15.2

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0:19.2

but there's just a lot of good stuff on here. And best of all, 2% of all profits are donated

0:23.9

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0:27.7

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0:33.2

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0:51.7

Welcome to gender reveal, a podcast where we hopefully get a little bit closer to understanding

0:56.8

what the hell gender is. I'm your host and resident gender detective, Tuckwoodstock.

1:10.9

Hey everyone, hope you're all hanging in there. This week on the show, I'm excited to share

1:14.9

my chat with Alex Hanna, Alex's sociologist who works in the field of artificial intelligence

1:20.4

and the ethics thereof. So in our conversation, we talk about whether AI memes like Dolly

1:27.4

are secretly nefarious, whether we can use data science to predict who's going to win drag race,

1:33.2

and how to keep yourself safe online when you're doing criminalized things like attending a protest

1:39.0

or accessing abortion care or being trans. But first, just want to remind you quickly,

1:45.8

we've still got surf don't turf tank tops and train slags shirts back in the merch store,

1:50.1

as well as our new trans wrath sticker and a bunch of other great stuff. And as always,

1:55.4

these designs are only available for a limited time. I think you've got less than a week left

1:59.8

at this point. So grab whatever you want before it's gone at bit.ly slash gender merch. And now,

2:07.4

it's time for this week in gender.

2:16.7

This week, I present to you a message from basketball Hall of Famer and Space Jam actor Charles

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