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AI in Chicago, a Podcast

Welcome to AI in Chicago, the podcast where cutting-edge artificial intelligence meets the heart of the Midwest.

Podcast · By Khullani M. Abdullahi, JD | Founder Techne AI and BoardSight AI · English · US · Official site

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Sep 18, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 18, 2026

    Chicago’s Next Mayor? George Cardenas on Algorithms, Assessments, and Who Owns AI in City Hall (opens the original)

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    What does a mayor actually do about artificial intelligence? George A. Cardenas is Chairman and Commissioner of the Cook County Board of Review and a candidate for mayor of Chicago. He came to Chicago from Durango as a boy, went to Lane Tech, joined the Navy to pay for school, and audited Fortune 500books before spending nearly twenty years as alderman of the 12th Ward. He now runs the office that hears roughly a quarter of a million property tax appeals a year. In this conversation he becomes t

  2. Episode · Aug 24, 2026

    Who Decides Which AI Risks Matter? Nick Diakopoulos on Media, Politics, and AI Governance (opens the original)

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    Which AI risks end up in legislation, and where does that ranking come from? Nick Diakopoulos has spent a decade on that question. He is a professor of communication studies and, by courtesy, computer science at Northwestern University, where he directs the Computational Journalism Lab. He put the phrase "algorithmic accountability reporting" into circulation in a 2013 essay for The Atlantic and a 2014 Tow Center report, and his book Automating the News: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media (H

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