Interview with Dr. Desmond Patton, University of Pennsylvania

In this episode I have a discussion with Dr. Desmond Patton, the Brian and Randi Schwartz University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.  We talk about his research into the relationship between social media and gang violence and the cultural nuances in language amongst predominantly black and Hispanic youth, as well as current topics in AI and technology in general such as bias, intellectual property, and emotion simulating chatbots.

“Expressions of loss predict aggressive comments on Twitter among gang-involved youth in Chicago”: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-018-0020-x

Contextual Analysis of Social Media: The Promise and Challenge of Eliciting Context in Social Media Posts with Natural Language Processing: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/2022-09/Contextual%20Analysis%20of%20Social%20Media.pdf

Safiya U. Noble, Ph.D.: https://safiyaunoble.com/

The AI Dilemma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVJKj8lcNQ