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Consequential
Consequential is a narrative podcast about public policy, its impacts, and its potential for building a better future. The show is produced by Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. https://hnz.cm/consequential
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Putin's War Of Aggression, One Year In
In the years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, a cohort of young Westerners flocked to Moscow, including many idealists who were eager to suppor...
Next Steps for Gun Reform
In June, President Biden signed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act into law. While full of good news for gun-reform advocates, this law—which was in...
Is AI Shrinking the Middle Class?
There’s been a lot of anxiety lately about AI replacing workers. But what many economists are really worried about is not mass unemployment, but polar...
Economy, Rebooted
Gee wiz, ever wonder why the 1950s were so swell for the economy? Technological advancements in things like telecommunications, transportation, and co...
Season 5 Trailer | Welcome Back, Congress. … Now what?
This season on Consequential, we’ll ask experts about a range of pressing issues that are top of mind as policymakers get down to business: How to reb...
Consequential Policymaking: What's Next?
After a bill as significant as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is signed into law, both regulators and the general public have important ro...
Investing in our Future Workforce
The pandemic may have accelerated the future of work, but it is certainly not the only factor necessitating targeted investment in the workforce. This...
The Infrastructure of Care
Care is one of the most integral aspects of our society, and one of the most contentious aspects of infrastructure legislation. This week's episode lo...
Transit of the Future
Public transportation is one of the most critical aspects of our infrastructure, but it is also one of the most imperiled and underfunded. This week's...
The World's Largest Machine
Our electrical grid has been called the world's largest machine, but it's in need of some serious updates. This week's episode looks at a few areas of...
Intro to Infrastructure
While infrastructure may have taken center stage in this year's policy discussions, the United States has been trying to figure out what to do about o...
Season 4 Trailer | Infrastructure
What are the long-term impacts of targeted investments in our physical and human infrastructure? Beginning November 24, Season 4 of the Consequential...
Is Information Democratized?
In the age of the Internet, a lot of information is at our fingertips. But is it accessible, reliable and up-to-date? In the season finale of Conseque...
Language, Power and NLP
Natural language processing is the branch of artificial intelligence that allows computers to recognize, analyze and replicate human language. But whe...
Why does open source have such a wide gender gap?
Open source software is the infrastructure of the Internet, but it is less diverse than the tech industry overall. In this deep-dive on gender in open...
Is the presence of a human enough to regulate an AI decision-making system?
From helping to identify tumors to guiding trading decisions on Wall Street, artificial intelligence has begun to inform important decision-making, bu...
Enron, Wikipedia and the Deal with Biased Low-Friction Data
The Enron emails helped give us spam filters, and many natural language processing and fact-checking algorithms rely on data from Wikipedia. While the...
Can automation make peer review faster and fairer?
Peer review is the backbone of research, upholding the standards of accuracy, relevance and originality. However, as innovation in the fields of AI an...
Enjoy The Long Weekend!
We're taking a day off today from our episode and will be back in December. Have a great holiday weekend!
Is Crowdsourcing the Answer to our Data Diversity Problem?
Traditional scientific research has a data diversity problem. Online platforms, such as Mechanical Turk, give researchers access to a wider variety an...
If Banning Bots Won't Stop Disinformation, What Will?
Disinformation is as old as the printing press, if not older. So what has accelerated its spread now, and what can be done to stop it? On this special...
The Story of the EEG
In the first episode of Season 3 of Consequential, hosts Eugene and Lauren look at how underlying biases in the development of the EEG have impacted h...
Season 3 Trailer | Knowledge is Power
In Season 3 of Consequential, hosts Eugene and Lauren will be exploring knowledge production in the Information Age. Beginning on October 21, this sea...
How Do You Reopen A State?
Today we're asking our experts: how do you coordinate a crisis response to an issue like COVID-19, where every public health decision has economic ram...
An Update from Consequential
With consideration to the events of the past week and in order to hold space for the voices that are boldly challenging systemic racism and injustice,...
Death by a Thousand Emails
Can teams still be effective when working together remotely? Is working from home the future of work? In this week’s episode, hosts Eugene and Lauren...
How will COVID-19 Change Higher Ed?
In the span of just two weeks, the entire American higher education system moved online due to COVID-19. While this is often considered a temporary me...
Sorry, Your Phone Says You Have Anxiety
How will certain new standards for data sharing and surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic impact the future of healthcare? In episode two of Conse...
Pandemics, Public Data, and Privacy
Mobile data records, tracking devices and government-mandated selfies have played a large role in both enforcing quarantines and providing data to bet...
Season 2 Trailer | COVID-19
In light of recent developments related to COVID-19, we have decided to push back our second season to focus instead on what we can learn from the cor...
A Policy Roadmap
Over the last 9 episodes, we’ve presented a variety of questions and concerns relating to the impacts of technology, specifically focusing on artifici...
Paging Dr. Robot
Don’t worry, your next doctor probably isn’t going to be a robot. But as healthcare tech finds its way into both the operating room and your living ro...
The Future of Work
If artificial intelligence can do certain tasks better than we can, what does that mean for the concept of work as we know it? We will cover human-AI...
A Particular Set of Skills
The World Economic Forum has found that while automation could eliminate 75 million jobs by 2022, it could also create 133 million new jobs. In this e...
Staying Connected
If you think about any piece of pop culture about the future, it takes place in a city. Whether we realize it or not, when we imagine the future, we p...
Bursting the Education Bubble
Big data disrupted the entertainment industry by changing the ways that people develop, distribute and access content, and it may soon do the same for...
Fair Enough
Everyone has a different definition of what fairness means - including algorithms. As municipalities begin to rely on algorithmic decision-making, man...
Data Subjects and Manure Entrepreneurs
Every time you order a shirt, swipe on a dating app or even stream this podcast, your data is contributing to the growing digital architecture that po...
The Black Box
Inside the black box, important decisions are being made that may affect the kinds of jobs you apply for and are selected for, the candidates you’ll l...
Disruption Disrupted
Are the robots coming for your job? The answer isn’t quite that simple. We look at what’s real and what’s hype in the narrative of industry disruption...