# Latanya Sweeney
Top podcast episodes
Updated:
Latanya Arvette Sweeney is a Professor of the Practice of Government and Technology at Harvard University, the Director of the Data Privacy Lab in the Institute of Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard, and the Faculty Dean in Currier House at Harvard. She formerly served as the Chief Technologist of the Federal Trade Commission, a position she held from January 2014 until December 2014. She has made several contributions to privacy technology.
Latanya Sweeney on AI, trust, and privacy
How does the rise of AI impact our sense of what’s true? How can humans maintain a degree of individual privacy and unlock the benefits of AI while mitigating potential harms? In this episode, Reid and Aria sit down with data privacy pioneer Latanya Sweeney, Professor of Government and Technology a…
Technocracy and the Social Contract: Latanya Sweeney
Technology in the Social Contract Increasingly, the design of new technology determines the way our society functions and the way we live. Simple design flaws like the lack of a mute button on Sony Camcorders ended up changing our laws on surveillance. We don't elect the people that build our globa…
Possible: Latanya Sweeney on AI, trust, and privacy
How does the rise of AI impact our sense of what’s true? How can humans maintain a degree of individual privacy and unlock the benefits of AI while mitigating potential harms? In this episode, Reid and Aria sit down with data privacy pioneer Latanya Sweeney, Professor of Government and Technology a…
Latanya Sweeney
Learn about the life and work of Latanya Sweeney from a group of campers at the 2025 run of Girls Talk Math at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Jen Gennai: Leading in AI’s Human Era
In 2017, before generative AI became a household term, Jen Gennai drafted Google’s original AI Principles. She was part of the effort to define what responsible AI should mean inside one of the most influential technology companies in the world. Now, years later, she is asking a more uncomfortable …
What Becomes Possible: Season 2 Finale
Season 2 ends at the summit — where the life you've been walking through all season suddenly comes clear. On quiet, choice, and what Latanya Sweeney's warning about AI reveals about a borrowed life. What opens up for you now?
PODCAST SEARCH ENGINE
You can use our website to search 3,826,122 podcasts and 196,016,104 episodes by people, places, or topics.
If I have seen further than others, it is by listening to podcasts and standing upon the shoulders of
giants.
‐ Isaac "Llamacorn" Newton
EDIT
Thank you for helping to keep the podcast database up to date.
