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Agile is broken

TikTok · 06:58 · Aug 8, 2023

The way we practice agile software development is broken. Constant sprinting and demands for delivering “business value” leave little room for ethical debates and treat developers as code monkeys. We can and should do better.

• Agile Manifesto
• Shit User Story
• Developer Hegemony
• CHANI profile

Responsible tech communities

TikTok · 01:59 · Aug 1, 2023

Responsible tech communities worth checking out. Most of them are Slack based, be sure to check out their newsletters as well.

• All Tech Is Human
• Ethical Design Network
• ClimateAction.Tech
• Work On Climate
• Center for Humane Technology

Tempering the gen AI flame

TikTok · 05:16 · Jul 30, 2023

Thoughts on how we can temper the generative AI flame and not get caught in its harms & hype narratives, but instead explore rainbow mirrors through experimentation and imagination.

• Time article on Karya

Technology as fire analogy

TikTok · 03:18 · Jul 27, 2023

Exploring fire as an analogy for technology. Instead of starting fires with the “move fast break things” approach, it’s time we started exploring responsible firekeeping with Elemental Ethics.

Dancing with AI fire

TikTok · 01:53 · Jul 27, 2023

You don’t have to dance with the fire of generative AI just because everyone else is. The path of a responsible firekeeper beckons.

Why is OpenAI avoiding sustainability?

TikTok · 02:28 · Jul 25, 2023

We can only guess what the environmental costs of training and using ChatGPT and other similar large language models. It’s time for OpenAI to take responsibility for the impact they have on the environment!

• OpenAI’s research on job impacts
• OpenAI Charter

Beware algorithmic decision making

TikTok · 03:21 · Jul 24, 2023

As we introduce more AI and algorithmic decision making into tools we use for work, it becomes increasingly important to demand greater transparency and better appeal processes with more humans in the loop.

• Timnit Gebru’s LinkedIn post
• Programs to detect AI discriminate against non-native English speakers, shows study

Hello, TikTok

TikTok · 01:37 · Jul 24, 2023

A short intro about my background and what type of content you can expected on my TikTok account.

Questioning the magic of digital oracles and the men behind the AI curtain

YouTube · 11:20 · Jul 18, 2023

Reading my blog post on why we should keep questioning the digital oracles that entice us with their AI magic.

• Original blog post
• Companion blog post

CodeWeek10: Alja Isakovic

YouTube · 01:04 · Sep 1, 2022

A short message I recorded for the 10th anniversary edition of Europe Code Week as one of the co-founders of the initiative.

Tech Ethics: More Than Just a Role | Talking Tethix ep. 1

YouTube · 56:57 · Jun 7, 2022

A conversation with my Tethix co-founder Mathew Mytka on why tech ethics is more than just a role you hire for and what challenges await tech ethicists in the coming years as the field of responsible tech matures.

Tethix origin story

YouTube · 12:16 · May 16, 2022

Telling the story about how the seed for Tethix was planted in 2020, the key learnings from our first pilot exploration journey in the Tethix Learning Archipelago in March 2022, and what’s next for Tethix.