Episode 8- Ethics in Technology (Featuring Sarah Shaik and Nakul Malhotra)

On the season finale, Rea and Ashwin are joined by Sarah Shaik and Nakul Malhotra. The theme of our discussion is 'ethics in technology'

We discuss the example of a smart home speaker (think 'Google Home') and all the ethichal aspects around Google Home's usage and data governance.
Sarah introduces us to the 3 pillars of ethics in technology - 1. rights to data, 2. utilitarianism and 3. Common good while Nakul talks about how there is a need to be cautiously optimistic while developing and adopting technology.
We also talk about the growing influence of the big techs and their responsibility to be ethical while scaling.

Our guests, Sarah and Nakul work as software engineers/developers in California and are quite passionate about the ethical side of tech.

Their LinkedIn's-

Sarah Shaik- https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-shaik/

Nakul Malhotra- https://www.linkedin.com/in/nakulmalhotra/

Links-

Google Assistant calling a restaurant for a reservation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RHG5DFAjp8