We’re excited to share that Mozilla's IRL podcast is a <a href="https://shortyawards.com/16th/irl-online-life-is-real-life-season-7">Shorty Awards finalist</a> in the Science and Technology Podcast category! If you enjoy IRL you can show your support by voting for us.The Shorty Awards recognizes great content by brands, agencies and nonprofits. It’s really an honor to be able to feature the voices and stories of the folks who are putting people over profit in AI. A Shorty Award will help bring these stories to even more listeners. How to vote1. Go to <a href="http://mzl.la/shorty">mzl.la/shorty</a>2. Click 'Vote in Science and Technology Podcast'3. create a username and password (it's easy, we promise!)4. Come back and vote every day until April 30thWe believe putting people over profit is award-worthy. Don’t you?  Thanks for your support!

<description>&lt;p&gt;We’re excited to share that Mozilla's IRL podcast is a &lt;a href="https://shortyawards.com/16th/irl-online-life-is-real-life-season-7"&gt;Shorty Awards finalist&lt;/a&gt; in the Science and Technology Podcast category! If you enjoy IRL you can show your support by voting for us.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Shorty Awards recognizes great content by brands, agencies and nonprofits. It’s really an honor to be able to feature the voices and stories of the folks who are putting people over profit in AI. A Shorty Award will help bring these stories to even more listeners. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to vote&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1. Go to &lt;a href="http://mzl.la/shorty"&gt;mzl.la/shorty&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2. Click 'Vote in Science and Technology Podcast'&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;3. create a username and password (it's easy, we promise!)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;4. Come back and &lt;strong&gt;vote every day until April 30th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We believe putting people over profit is award-worthy. Don’t you?  Thanks for your support!&lt;/p&gt;
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We’re excited to share that Mozilla's IRL podcast is a Shorty Awards finalist in the Science and Technology Podcast category! If you enjoy IRL you can show your support by voting for us.

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We have good news to share! IRL was nominated for an <a href="https://celebrate.anthemawards.com/PublicVoting/#/2024/responsible-technology/awareness-media-categories/non-profit">Anthem Award for Responsible Technology</a>. You can help us celebrate by voting for IRL to win.You can vote until Thursday Dec 21st   and it only takes a moment. Just go to <a href="http://mzl.la/anthem">mzl.la/anthem</a> then look for IRL and vote. It means so much to spotlight the voices and stories of folks who are making AI more trustworthy in real life and we’d love to see them recognized and celebrated. Thank you so much for your help.

We have good news to share! IRL was nominated for an Anthem Award for Responsible Technology. You can help us celebrate by voting for IRL to win.


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From Hollywood to Hip Hop, artists are negotiating new boundaries of consent for use of AI in the creative industries. Bridget Todd speaks to artists who are pushing the boundaries.It’s not the first time artists have been squeezed, but generative AI presents new dilemmas. In this episode: a member of the AI working group of the Hollywood writers union; a singer who licenses the use of her voice to others; an emcee and professor of Black music; and an AI music company charting a different path.<a href="https://elections.wga.org/2023/van-robichaux">Van Robichaux</a> is a comedy writer in Los Angeles who helped craft the Writers Guild of America’s proposals on managing AI in the entertainment industry. <a href="https://www.hollyherndon.com/holly">Holly Herndon</a> is a Berlin-based artist and a computer scientist who has developed “Holly +”, a series of deep fake music tools for making music with Holly’s voice.<a href="https://vivo.brown.edu/display/elumumba">Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo</a> creates video games and studies the intersection between AI and Hip Hop at Brown University. Her alias as a rapper is Sammus. <a href="https://www.loudly.com/">Rory Kenny</a> is co-founder and CEO of Loudly, an AI music generator platform that employs musicians to train their AI instead of scraping music from the internet.*Thank you to Sammus for sharing her track ‘1080p.’ Visit Sammus’ <a href="https://sammusmusic.bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp page</a> to hear the full track and check out more of her songs.*

<description>&lt;p&gt;From Hollywood to Hip Hop, artists are negotiating new boundaries of consent for use of AI in the creative industries. Bridget Todd speaks to artists who are pushing the boundaries.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It’s not the first time artists have been squeezed, but generative AI presents new dilemmas. In this episode: a member of the AI working group of the Hollywood writers union; a singer who licenses the use of her voice to others; an emcee and professor of Black music; and an AI music company charting a different path.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://elections.wga.org/2023/van-robichaux"&gt;Van Robichaux&lt;/a&gt; is a comedy writer in Los Angeles who helped craft the Writers Guild of America’s proposals on managing AI in the entertainment industry. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.hollyherndon.com/holly"&gt;Holly Herndon&lt;/a&gt; is a Berlin-based artist and a computer scientist who has developed “Holly +”, a series of deep fake music tools for making music with Holly’s voice.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://vivo.brown.edu/display/elumumba"&gt;Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo&lt;/a&gt; creates video games and studies the intersection between AI and Hip Hop at Brown University. Her alias as a rapper is Sammus. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.loudly.com/"&gt;Rory Kenny&lt;/a&gt; is co-founder and CEO of Loudly, an AI music generator platform that employs musicians to train their AI instead of scraping music from the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*Thank you to Sammus for sharing her track ‘1080p.’ Visit Sammus’ &lt;a href="https://sammusmusic.bandcamp.com/"&gt;Bandcamp page&lt;/a&gt; to hear the full track and check out more of her songs.*&lt;/p&gt;
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From Hollywood to Hip Hop, artists are negotiating consent for use of AI in the creative industries. Bridget Todd speaks to artists who are pushing the boundaries.

The Art of AI

Big tech’s power over language, means power over people. Bridget Todd talks to AI community leaders paving the way for open voice tech in their own languages and dialects.In this episode: AI builders and researchers in the US, Kenya and New Zealand who say the languages computers learn to recognize today will be the ones that survive tomorrow — as long as communities and local startups can defend their data rights from big AI companies.<a href="https://www.towson.edu/cla/departments/english/facultystaff/hlawrence.html">Halcyon Lawrence</a> was an Associate Professor of Technical Communication and Information Design at Towson University in Maryland (via Trinidad and Tobago) who did everything Alexa told her to for a year.*<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmahelona/?originalSubdomain=nz">Keoni Mahelona</a> is a leader of Indigenous data rights and chief technology officer of Te Hiku Media, a Māori community media network with 21 local radio stations in New Zealand. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathleen-siminyu-7356b810/?originalSubdomain=ke">Kathleen Siminyu</a> is an AI grassroots community leader in Kenya and a machine learning fellow with Mozilla’s Common Voice working on Kiswahili voice projects. IRL: Online Life is Real Life is an original podcast from Mozilla, the non-profit behind Firefox. In Season 7, host Bridget Todd talks to AI builders that put people ahead of profit.*Sadly, following the recording of this episode, <a href="http://www.halcyonlawrence.com/">Dr. Halcyon Lawrence</a> passed away. We are glad to have met her and pay tribute to her legacy as a researcher and educator. Thank you, Halcyon.

<description>&lt;p&gt;Big tech’s power over language, means power over people. Bridget Todd talks to AI community leaders paving the way for open voice tech in their own languages and dialects.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In this episode: AI builders and researchers in the US, Kenya and New Zealand who say the languages computers learn to recognize today will be the ones that survive tomorrow — as long as communities and local startups can defend their data rights from big AI companies.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.towson.edu/cla/departments/english/facultystaff/hlawrence.html"&gt;Halcyon Lawrence&lt;/a&gt; was an Associate Professor of Technical Communication and Information Design at Towson University in Maryland (via Trinidad and Tobago) who did everything Alexa told her to for a year.*&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmahelona/?originalSubdomain=nz"&gt;Keoni Mahelona&lt;/a&gt; is a leader of Indigenous data rights and chief technology officer of Te Hiku Media, a Māori community media network with 21 local radio stations in New Zealand. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathleen-siminyu-7356b810/?originalSubdomain=ke"&gt;Kathleen Siminyu&lt;/a&gt; is an AI grassroots community leader in Kenya and a machine learning fellow with Mozilla’s Common Voice working on Kiswahili voice projects. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;IRL: Online Life is Real Life is an original podcast from Mozilla, the non-profit behind Firefox. In Season 7, host Bridget Todd talks to AI builders that put people ahead of profit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*Sadly, following the recording of this episode, &lt;a href="http://www.halcyonlawrence.com/"&gt;Dr. Halcyon Lawrence&lt;/a&gt; passed away. We are glad to have met her and pay tribute to her legacy as a researcher and educator. Thank you, Halcyon. &lt;/p&gt;
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Big tech’s power over language, means power over people. Bridget Todd talks to language community leaders paving the way for voice AI in their own languages and dialects.

Lend Me Your Voice

Why does it so often feel like we’re part of a mass AI experiment? What is the responsible way to test new technologies? Bridget Todd explores what it means to live with unproven AI systems that impact millions of people as they roll out across public life. In this episode: a visit to San Francisco, a major hub for automated vehicle testing; an exposé of a flawed welfare fraud prediction algorithm in a Dutch city; a look at how companies comply with regulations in practice; and how to inspire alternative values for tomorrow’s AI.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYI5zbMLRmM">Julia Friedlander</a> is senior manager for automated driving policy at San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency who wants to see AVs regulated  based on safety performance data.<a href="https://pulitzercenter.org/people/justin-casimir-braun">Justin-Casimir Braun</a> is a data journalist at Lighthouse Reports who is <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/welfare-state-algorithms/">investigating</a> suspect algorithms for predicting welfare fraud across Europe. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/navrina/">Navrina Singh</a> is the founder and CEO of Credo AI, a platform that guides enterprises on how to ‘govern’ their AI responsibly in practice.<a href="https://vivo.brown.edu/display/suresh">Suresh Venkatasubramanian</a> is the director of the Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination, and Redesign at Brown University and he brings joy to computer science. IRL is an original podcast from Mozilla, the non-profit behind Firefox. In Season 7, host Bridget Todd shares stories about prioritizing people over profit in the context of AI.

<description>&lt;p&gt;Why does it so often feel like we’re part of a mass AI experiment? What is the responsible way to test new technologies? Bridget Todd explores what it means to live with unproven AI systems that impact millions of people as they roll out across public life. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In this episode: a visit to San Francisco, a major hub for automated vehicle testing; an exposé of a flawed welfare fraud prediction algorithm in a Dutch city; a look at how companies comply with regulations in practice; and how to inspire alternative values for tomorrow’s AI.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYI5zbMLRmM"&gt;Julia Friedlander&lt;/a&gt; is senior manager for automated driving policy at San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency who wants to see AVs regulated  based on safety performance data.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://pulitzercenter.org/people/justin-casimir-braun"&gt;Justin-Casimir Braun&lt;/a&gt; is a data journalist at Lighthouse Reports who is &lt;a href="https://www.wired.com/story/welfare-state-algorithms/"&gt;investigating&lt;/a&gt; suspect algorithms for predicting welfare fraud across Europe. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/navrina/"&gt;Navrina Singh&lt;/a&gt; is the founder and CEO of Credo AI, a platform that guides enterprises on how to ‘govern’ their AI responsibly in practice.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://vivo.brown.edu/display/suresh"&gt;Suresh Venkatasubramanian&lt;/a&gt; is the director of the Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination, and Redesign at Brown University and he brings joy to computer science. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;IRL is an original podcast from Mozilla, the non-profit behind Firefox. In Season 7, host Bridget Todd shares stories about prioritizing people over profit in the context of AI.&lt;/p&gt;
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Why does it so often feel like we’re part of a mass AI experiment? What is the responsible way to test new technologies? Bridget Todd explores what it means to live with unproven AI systems that impact millions of people as they roll out across public life.

Crash Test Dummies

How does artificial intelligence change when people — not profit — truly come first? Join IRL’s host Bridget Todd, as she meets people around the world building responsible alternatives to the tech that’s changing how we work, communicate, and even listen to music.

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