5 questions for Data and Society’s Tamara Kneese

Politico June 21, 2024
By Derek Robertson

Hello, and welcome to today’s edition of the Future in Five Questions. Today I talked to Tamara Kneese, director of the nonprofit Data & Society Research Institute’s Algorithmic Impact Methods Lab and author of Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond. She also worked on Intel’s “Green Software” team, studying the culture of the developers working on decarbonization software. We discussed the return of Luddite thought, modern dystopian sci-fi and why she wishes the term “AI” itself would just go away. An edited and condensed version of the conversation follows:

What’s one underrated big idea?

The Luddites are kind of having a resurgence right now because of work by journalists like Brian Merchant and my friend...

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