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Video: Duke Digital Intelligence Certificate Launch Reel
In 2022, Duke Science & Society launched a new undergraduate certificate in Digital Intelligence to provide students foundational knowledge in computational technologies and their relationship to society. The foundation of this certificate consists of 22, hour-long video modules featuring faculty hosts from a wide variety of disciplines and over 100 interviews with experts from around…
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Identifying and Flagging Viral Deepfakes and Fauxtography at Scale
Fauxtography, or images that have been manipulated from their original, have been around for a very long time. In 1942 a photo of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini had a horse handler removed from from the shot in order to make Mussolini look more heroic.[1] During the 2004 United States presidential election a photo of then…
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Forgetting How to Die
Suffering from pneumonia in a hospital bed at Cedars Sinai Medical Center Groucho Marx found one more way to make his audience smile. On the verge of death, the great comedian went out with one more zinger: “This is no way to live!” Marx probably did not have bioethics in mind when he cracked his…
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Apple’s New Ad Campaign Goes All the Way To Washington
Apple’s new marketing campaign could drastically affect data privacy policy in the U.S. Data privacy is a growing concern on many of our minds, but the global tech giant is now making it a commercial priority. If their previous market success is any indication of what is to come, the issue is about to grip…
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Which entity – the government or the private sector – presents a greater threat to the future of our society?
[This position paper was written in April, 2021 as part of my graduate studies in tech ethics and policy at Duke University. The course explored privacy, technology, and national security. The title is the prompt.] “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.”[1] These were bitter words from Sun Microsystem’s CEO Scott McNealy, back in…
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Values, Victims, and Other Broken Eggs: Encryption and Child Sexual Exploitation Online
In 1984, Apple Inc. produced an iconic Super Bowl commercial that kicked off the tradition of entertaining advertising that so many now look forward to during the championship game. The commercial picks up on the famous novel by George Orwell. In a bleak and colorless future, masses of despondent citizens march mindlessly to a dark…
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The Ethical Storyteller: How Carl Elliott Illuminates Injustice Through Narrative
Carl Elliot knows how to tell a great story. He is a prolific author, a doctor, and a professor of many things. He is a bioethicist, a historian, and a philosopher, and like those fields of study, human lives are at the center of his written work. Elliot creates for his readers a palpable experience…
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Video: An Interview with Matt Perault, Director of the Center on Science and Technology Policy at Duke University
The Duke Master of Arts in Bioethics, Tech Ethics & Science Policy program teaches students how to identify, analyze, and propose solutions to myriad complex issues at the intersection of science, technology, ethics, and policy. In this webinar for prospective students I interviewed Matt Perault, Director of the Center on Science and Technology Policy. Matt…
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In Interactive View of The Future Of Self-Driving Cars at Moogfest
Since 2004, Moogfest has brought together artists, thinkers, entrepreneurs, and researchers in an effort to grow a global community of futurists with eyes on changing the world. Amidst the electronic music permeating the event, are workshops on protests and how to effectively intervene in public spaces; hacks, how-to’s, and maker sessions; and Pub Talks that…
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About the Master of Arts in Bioethics & Science Policy at Duke University
The Master of Arts in Bioethics & Science Policy at Duke has evolved significantly since my entry as a publication specialist in 2015. I shot, directed, and produced this quick overview video for prospective students to better understand this one-of-a-kind graduate program.