Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Van Ness and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

On today's episode, I'm joined by NYU Associate Professor

Data Journalist AI researcher and author Meredith Broussard. We discuss her book

Artificial Unintelligence, how computers misunderstand the world, where she sheds light on how racism plays a part

in the current state of AI.

Welcome to getting curious,

this is Jonathan Banes.

I'm so excited to introduce to you,

Meredith Broussard, our guest this week.

You are a professor at NYU and also an author

of a gorgeous book, which is artificial unintelligentelligent which I live for.

Welcome.

Thank you.

It's so exciting to be here.

I'm so happy to have you here.

I've, I don't think I've ever had a professor from NYU.

I'm enthralled, I'm nervous, I'm

NYU, I'm like a major school, honey, she's like a major university.

Well, you can come to class anytime.

Oh my gosh, is that a thing where you observe, you can come like, what's that called when you come observe a class?

It's like a thing? Isn't that like a thing that people do where they go like observe classes?

Yeah, yeah, it has a name.

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