We chat with AI Criminologist Renée Cummings about fighting bias in AI, promoting social justice, and thorny debates around emerging tech! Oh, and of course Minority Report comes up.

On Funny as Tech, tech ethicist David Ryan Polgar and comedian Joe Leonardo bring on a wide range of experts to unpack are confusing present and uncertain future. Our relationship with tech is messy...let's discuss!

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Renée Cumming is an AI strategist who specializes in ethical, diverse, equitable, inclusive and responsible AI development and deployment, algorithmic accountability, data integrity, AI for social good and social justice, AI policy and governance.

Passionate about using AI to design real time solutions to urban challenges, I’m committed to deploying AI to empower and sustainably transform cities, communities, cultures, and organizations; securing full participation of citizens in the 4IR, helping companies navigate the AI landscape and developing future AI leaders.

A multicultural cross-connector of multi-disciplinary fields and an innovative collaborator; I’m committed to fostering powerful connections, unifying people and technologies, enhancing quality of life and increasing economic prosperity.

Uniquely qualified with a broad knowledge base and international experience, I believe in the power of the imagination and the extraordinary possibilities of AI, augmented intelligence and collective intelligence.

Using AI to reengineer how we think about offending, policing, safety, security, sentencing and public health and AI inspired approaches to homicide reduction, violence and crime prevention are all areas of specialization as a criminologist.