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About Austin Clyde
I am a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago Department of Computer Science, and I research artificial intelligence and high-performance computing for developing new scientific methods. I am also a visiting research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Science, Technology, and Society program, where my research addresses the intersection of artificial intelligence, human rights, and democracy.Austin Clyde is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago Department of Computer Science. He researches artificial intelligence and high-performance computing for developing new scientific methods. He is also a visiting research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Science, Technology, and Society program, where my research addresses the intersection of artificial intelligence, human rights, and democracy.
NBN Episodes hosted by Austin:
July 11, 2022
The Digital Republic
From one of the leading intellectuals of the digital age, The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century (Pegasus Books, 2022) is …
May 23, 2022
Unmasked
Unmasked: COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji (Vanderbilt UP, 2022) is the story of what happened in Okoboji, a small Iowan tourist town, when a…
April 19, 2022
Technology of the Oppressed
In Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil (MIT Press, 2022), David Nemer draws on extensive ethnographic f…
April 18, 2022
Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves
In 2020, COVID-19, the Australia bushfires, and other global threats served as vivid reminders that human and nonhuman fates are increasingly linked. …
April 14, 2022
How Machines Came to Speak
In How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech (Duke UP, 2022), Jennifer Petersen constructs a genealogy of how legal concept…
March 30, 2022
A New History of Modern Computing
In A New History of Modern Computing (MIT Press, 2021), Thomas Haigh and Paul Ceruzzi trace changes leading to the computer becoming a ubiquitous tec…
March 16, 2022
The Constitution of Algorithms
The Constitution of Algorithms: Ground-Truthing, Programming, Formulating (MIT Press, 2021) is a laboratory study that investigates how algorithms com…
March 8, 2022
Algorithms and Autonomy
Many have experienced moments where algorithms have made us uncomfortable or suspicious. In Algorithms and Autonomy: The Ethics of Automated Decision …
March 3, 2022
Life After Privacy
Privacy is gravely endangered in the digital age, and we, the digital citizens, are its principal threat, willingly surrendering it to avail ourselves…