Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Vaness 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 Rays System Plays

Apart in the Current State of AI.

Welcome to Getting Curious. This is Jonathan Vaness. 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 Unintelligence, which I live for. Welcome.

Thank you. It's so exciting to be here.

I'm so happy to have you here. I don't think I've ever had a professor from NYU. I'm

thralled. I'm nervous. I'm NYU's like a major school. I need 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. It's like a audit. It's like

an audit. It's an audit. All right. You can come audit my Data Journalism class anytime.

Really? Yeah. It'd be fun.

Okay. Okay. Focus. I was imagining like an all black outfit, a really sleek hair. Like

something sleek, something like really Julia Roberts in Aaron Brockovich. Like I'm going

to university to learn about this water. That would be lovely. I digress. So Artificial

Unintelligence is a book about algorithm bias. Yeah. It's a book about the inner workings

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