Dr. Alex Hanna - Cutting Through the Hype: On the Importance of Quality Data and Community-Driven Design

In this episode of "The World We're Building," Ally sits down with Dr. Alex Hanna, the Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). Dr. Hanna is a computational sociologist by training, working to tackle some of the most pressing socio-technical challenges with a focus on the data. Dr. Hanna shares quality data practices and both the necessary and sufficient criteria for achieving "good AI". Dr. Hanna also debunks the myth of AI hype and describes the harm it can cause.

For further information about the DAIR team that Dr. Hanna references, you can see their website here: https://www.dair-institute.org/team/