AI Innovation: What Right Do We Have to the Data? with Mary Gray and Morgan Klaus Scheuerman

In this episode, we dive into the ethical, social, and political stakes of data in the age of AI with two leading voices in the field: Mary Gray, Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and co-author of Ghost Work, and Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, postdoctoral researcher and expert on sociotechnical systems and fairness in AI.

We unpack the question: What right do we have to the data fueling AI innovation? From biometric surveillance to scraped social media content, our guests explore how data is collected, whose consent is ignored, and what it means to build systems on information people never agreed to share. Along the way, we touch on data colonialism, the myth of "public" data, and how marginalized communities disproportionately bear the burdens of data-driven technologies.