Ep. 53 - Autonomy and Data Liberation with Hugo Campos

08/26/20 • 51 min

In this installment of the Future Grind podcast host Ryan O’Shea sits down with well known data liberation advocate Hugo Campos. Hugo lives with an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator, or ICD, which monitors his heart and helps keep him alive. However, the lack of transparency coming from the medical community about his device and the data it collects has lead Hugo on decade plus mission to advocate for data liberation and patient engagement. Hugo has been honored as a White House Champion of Change for Precision Medicine by President Barack Obama, and works with Stanford Medicine X, which is Stanford's premier program on emerging technology and medicine, focusing on patient-centered innovation. Hugo has also shared his story in a TEDx talk at Harvard in 2011.

Today Hugo is a participant ambassador for the All of Us Research Program, an initiative from the NIH focused on building a diverse health database featuring over 1 million participants which will drive future scientific and medical breakthroughs.

They discuss the value of data, inherent issues in the medical industry, the importance of autonomy, opportunities presented by the All of Us program and much more.

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They discuss the value of data, inherent issues in the medical industry, the importance of autonomy, opportunities presented by the All of Us program and much more.

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Ep. 52 - AI Ethics and Social Reform with Nell Watson

In this installment of the Future Grind podcast host Ryan O’Shea speaks with Nell Watson, an entrepreneur and machine intelligence researcher whose work primarily focuses on protecting human rights and creating ethical AI. She currently serves as AI Faculty at Singularity University and works with the IEEE on AI initiatives. She also chairs EthicsNet.org, which crowdsources datasets to teach pro-social behaviors to machines, and CulturalPeace.org, which seeks to craft Geneva Conventions-style rules for cultural conflict. Nell serves as Senior Scientific Advisor to The Future Society at Harvard, and holds Fellowships from the British Computing Society, and Royal Statistical Society, among others.

They discuss AI value alignment, the role for humans in AI, rules of engagement for the culture wars, the COVID-19 pandemic, and much more.

Both Nell and Ryan are going to be speaking at the Humanity Plus Post-Pandemic summit on July 7th and 8th, 2020. This free digital event will be themed around A Future Free of Disease and Destruction, and they’ll be joined by some of the leading figures in futurism and transhumanism including Dr. Ben Goertzel, Dr. Max More, Dr. Natasha Vita-More, Dr. Anders Sandberg, and more. You can register here.

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Ep. 54 - David Ernst on Liquid Democracy

In this installment of the Future Grind podcast host Ryan O’Shea discusses the concept of liquid democracy, or democracy 3.0, with David Ernst. David is an entrepreneur and technologist advocating for and working to build the infrastructure to support liquid democracy, which is a combination of direct and representative democracy in which voters can choose to directly vote on legislation, or can delegate their vote on any issue to someone who they feel is more capable or qualified to make those decisions. David’s current major project is Secure Internet Voting, or SIV, which promises to offer fast, private, and verifiable internet voting. He also runs Democracy Space and hosts the Liquid Future podcast, which explores Democracy 3.0 and other visions for the future of government and society.

They discuss how liquid democracy can be implemented today with no changes to law, the failures of partisanship, the possibility of AI making political decisions, and much more.

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