Slate Money - The Cathy's Dream Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2017
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
It's an all-Cathy episode today on Slate Money! Hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil, author of, Weapons of Math Destruction, and Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann discuss three topics handpicked by Ms O'Neil. They are:
- The AI that will put some lawyers out of business.
- Statistics in the age of Trump.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.0 | Hello! |
| 0:10.0 | And welcome to Kathy's dream episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week, brought to you this week by Kathy O'Neill, |
| 0:23.8 | the data scientist, the principal and CEO of Orca, which we don't entirely know what Orca is yet, |
| 0:30.9 | but we're sure it's going to be a unicorn, the author of weapons of math destruction, |
| 0:35.8 | and the general all-round excellent person who is not going to be on this show much more. |
| 0:41.3 | In fact, we have one more special edition after this one where Kathy is going to weigh in on creative industries and that's it. |
| 0:50.7 | Yeah, I'm going to miss you guys. |
| 0:51.9 | We're going to miss you, Kathy. |
| 0:53.2 | And so as part of your farewell tour, we have given you the lay of the... |
| 1:02.4 | The rains in the saddle. |
| 1:04.4 | The reins in the saddle. |
| 1:06.0 | So I'm Felix Hammond of Fusion. |
| 1:08.2 | Jordan Weissman of Slate is also here, but this is your show. Thank you. You're taking the reins. Wait, can I say hello? You can say hello. We already missed that. Okay. Hello. You've been waiting three years to do that. I know. I know. It was as satisfying as I'd hoped. It was a lot of buildup. I'm glad to be here. |
| 1:29.1 | So we're going to be talking about artificial intelligence in law firms. We're going to be |
| 1:34.7 | talking about statistics in the age of Trump, which is a very catty kind of thing. |
| 1:40.4 | But the most cathay thing that I think we're going to talk about, because it manages to combine not only big data, but also right-wing conspiracy theories, is Cambridge Analytica. |
| 1:54.8 | Yeah. There was this really, you know, widely shared piece, originally written by a Swiss magazine, |
| 2:01.0 | Dust Magazine, last week. |
| 2:03.8 | Or I guess it was written a couple weeks ago, |
| 2:05.4 | but it was translated into English and passed around. |
| 2:08.2 | Like, it ran around like wildfire, |
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