On this week’s episode, Michael Tanana of Lyssn, joins us to talk about artificial intelligence, or AI, in the child welfare system. Tanana helped found Lyssn, which uses AI to help assess the quality of various services in a way that used to require painstaking transcription and notetaking. We talked about starting an AI company in this space and also about his views around the ethical application of it in a system where the integrity of families is often on the line.

Michael Tanana is a data scientist, machine learning researcher and software engineer. He co-founded Lyssn in 2017.

Reading Room

Tech Alphabet Soup and Child Welfare

https://imprintnews.org/podcast/tech-alphabet-soup-child-welfare

White House Issues Plan for Artificial Intelligence Bill of Rights

https://imprintnews.org/youth-services-insider/white-house-issues-plan-for-artificial-intelligence-bill-of-rights/234146

In a New Study, Georgia Professor Explores the Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Child Welfare Field

https://imprintnews.org/top-stories/in-a-new-study-georgia-professor-explores-the-use-of-artificial-intelligence-in-the-child-welfare-field/256116

Using Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence in Child Welfare

https://imprintnews.org/child-welfare-2/using-algorithms-artificial-intelligence-in-child-welfare/33429

Opinion: Child Welfare Should Go Slow on AI

https://imprintnews.org/opinion/child-welfare-should-go-slow-ai/242819

Calculating the Souls of Black Folk

https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/cjrl/article/view/8741