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Kirsten Martin 0:02
Hi, I’m Kirsten Martin, director of the Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center, better known as ND TEC, and I’m here to introduce you to TEC Talks.

TEC Talks started out in 2021 as a virtual live event series. Videos of all these sessions are available at techethics.nd.edu.

Now we’re trying something new: TEC Talks, the podcast.

The show, like our center, focuses on the impact of technology on humanity. Because when it comes to tech, it’s not enough to just ask “What can we do?” We also need to think about “What should we be doing?”

Throughout this podcast, I’ll be bringing you conversations—typically 15–30 minutes long—on a broad range of topics relevant to technology ethics. These could be anything from the ways we develop and deploy AI and how we fight misinformation to the notion of privacy online and corporate responsibility when it comes to people’s data.

Each episode will take one article, idea, case, or discovery and examine the larger implications for the field of technology ethics. Our goal is to make these ideas accessible to a wide audience, whether you’re a scholar working on similar issues or someone, in my life, like a retired executive in North Carolina, still reading hard copies of the Wall Street Journal and New York Times and tracking the daily weather. Just as an example.

Hi, Dad.

TEC Talks is available wherever you get your podcasts and at techethics.nd.edu. I hope you’ll check it out.

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