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Afghani women have the right to education too! How one woman was able to give women and young girls access to the gift of education. Her school is attempts to heal tribal and gender divisions.

As the last American troops left Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban, a regime that the U.S spent 20 years and billions of dollars fighting, returned to power. Women’s rights activists and legislators fled the country in fear for their lives. The Taliban banned girls from attending high school & college. How did we get…

If you think about any piece of pop culture about the future, it takes place in a city. Whether we realize it or not, when we imagine the future, we picture cities, and that idea is all the more problematic when it comes to who benefits from technological change and who does not. This episode…

If artificial intelligence can do certain tasks better than we can, what does that mean for the concept of work as we know it? We will cover human-AI collaboration in the workplace: what it might look like, what it could accomplish and what policy needs to be put in place to protect the interests of…

How will certain new standards for data sharing and surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic impact the future of healthcare? In episode two of Consequential’s two-part deep-dive on pandemics, public health and privacy.

From helping to identify tumors to guiding trading decisions on Wall Street, artificial intelligence has begun to inform important decision-making, but always with the input of a human. However, not all humans respond the same way to algorithmic advice. This episode of Consequential looks at human-in-the-loop AI.

Racism is more entrenched and systemic than most of us realise. Using a range of practical case studies, Jonathan shows how Australia’s white supremacist history continues to influence present-day political, legal and cultural institutions. Mainstream conversations about racism too often focus on overt bigotry, rather than covert structural oppression. The deeper issues are ignored and…

This episode  takes a look at the origins of race and the building of a caste system in the US based largely on the lessons from Isabel Wilkerson, author of “Caste: The Origins of our Discontent”. During a time when race-based science and the eugenics movement were becoming mainstream, they sought to prove that race…

This episode uncovers the economic side of systemic racism in the United States throughout history and how it led to the uncomfortable reality where Blacks in America have been locked out of every period of wealth accumulation by design. The show also challenges conventional economic wisdom within the Black community and draws a conclusion that…