Human Centered - A Social Science of Caregiving

A Social Science of Caregiving

02/26/24 • 64 min

Recorded before a live audience, Margaret Levi, Alison Gopnik, & Anne-Marie Slaughter discuss a CASBS project, "The Social Science of Caregiving," which is reimagining the philosophical, psychological, biological, political, & economic foundations of care and caregiving. The goal is a coherent empirical and theoretical account or synthesis of care that advances understandings and policy discussions. [The episode notes provide links for further exploration.]
Article on CASBS's project on The Social Science of Caregiving

Web page for the project on The Social Science of Caregiving
Related: Human Centered episode #61, "Developing AI Like Raising Kids" (Alison Gopnik & Ted Chiang)

Alison Gopnik: CASBS bio | UC Berkeley Bio |
Gopnik article, "Caregiving in Philosophy, Biology & Political Economy" (Dædalus)
Margaret Levi: CASBS bio | CASBS program on Creating a New Moral Political Economy |
Anne-Marie Slaughter: New America bio |
Slaughter articles, "Care is a Relationship" (Dædalus) | "Why Women Still Can't Have it All" (The Atlantic)
Slaughter book, Unfinished Business (Penguin Random House)

Web page for the project on The Social Science of Caregiving
Related: Human Centered episode #61, "Developing AI Like Raising Kids" (Alison Gopnik & Ted Chiang)

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The Shadow of Cybersecurity Expertise

Pulitzer Prize-winning tech journalist & 2017-18 CASBS fellow John Markoff chats with 2022-23 CASBS fellow Rebecca Slayton on how the field of computing expertise evolved, eventually giving rise to the niche of professionals who protect systems from cyber-attacks. Slayton's forthcoming book explores the governance & risk implications emerging from the fact that cybersecurity experts must establish their authority by paradoxically revealing vulnerabilities and insecurities of that which they seek to protect.
REBECCA SLAYTON
Cornell University faculty page | | CASBS page |

Slayton's book Arguments that Count: Physics, Computing, and Missile Defense, 1949-2012 (MIT Press)

Slayton's article "What is the Cyber Offense-Defense Balance?," International Security

Video: Talk on "Shadowing Cybersecurity: Expertise, Transnationalism, and the Politics of Uncertainty" at Stanford Univ.

JOHN MARKOFF

New York Times page

Markoff's latest book, Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Steward Brand (Penguin Random House, 2022)

View the Fall 2023 CASBS Newsletter

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Bridging Adaptive Algorithms and the Public Good

Pulitzer Prize-winning tech journalist John Markoff chats with 2022-23 CASBS fellow Nathan Matias about often-overlooked public interest questions and concerns regarding the deployment of tech platform algorithms and AI models. Specifically, Matias is a player in filling the two-way knowledge gaps between civil society and tech firms with an eye on governance, safety, accountability, and advancing the science — including the social science — of human-algorithm behavior.

Nathan Matias: Cornell University faculty page | CASBS bio | Personal website |

Citizens & Technology Lab
Coalition for Independent Technology Research
Select Matias publications
"Humans and Algorithms Work Together — So Study Them Together" Nature (2023)
"Impact Assessment of Human-Algorithm Feedback Loops" Just Tech, SSRC (2022)
"The Tragedy of the Digital Commons" The Atlantic (2015)
"To Hold Tech Accountable, Look to Public Health" Wired (2023)
Link to more Nathan Matias public writing | Matias on Medium | on LinkedIn |
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Read John Markoff's latest book, Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand (Penguin Random House, 2022)