Harry Glaser

Founder & CEO, Periscope Data customer/vendor platform context note: Periscope Data context applies directly: Founder & CEO, Periscope Data · 1 appearance on the record.

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12statements → 4claims → 2claims resolved → 3.67/5average certainty → 2.25/5average debate potential →

1 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 4 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

4 assertions · 2 opinions · 4 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Harry argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Glaser: European-built facial recognition performed worse on non-European faces

“One of them is a facial recognition software, a classifier, and this particular classifier, this particular facial recognition was built by a team of folks of European descent, much like myself, and it turned out to be very good at recognizing faces of Europea…”

Harry Glaser Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 5:21 The Conscience of AI // Harry Glaser, Periscope Data (FirstMark's Data Driven)

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted

Crisis Text Line uses machine learning to suggest real-time volunteer responses

“They have started using machine learning to suggest answers in real time to the responders of these text messages”

Harry Glaser Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 9:41 The Conscience of AI // Harry Glaser, Periscope Data (FirstMark's Data Driven)

How they sound: speaking style how? →

287 words/min while actually speaking · 21.9 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Harry Glaser: only 1 usable question→answer exchange on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 4,072 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

What they said12 Episodes1

Everything Harry Glaser said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion

Glaser: Executives, customers, and governments do not understand AI technology

“I'm here to tell you as a CEO, it's not going to be your CEO, and it's not going to be your users, and it's not going to be your customers, and it's not going to be your government, because they ultimately don't know how this technology works, and they ultimat…”

Harry Glaser Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 7:29 The Conscience of AI // Harry Glaser, Periscope Data (FirstMark's Data Driven)

Insight

Glaser: Open dialogue yields better AI outcomes than closed corporate consortiums

“If we said the CEOs of six companies are gonna get together in a consortium and figure this stuff out, I'd be quite worried, right? But if we said, we're all going to have a series of open dialogues, and we're going to have a pretty open and transparent cultur…”

Harry Glaser Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 13:20 The Conscience of AI // Harry Glaser, Periscope Data (FirstMark's Data Driven)

Opinion

Glaser: Recent public criticism of Google's internal culture is likely deserved

“The culture there that has taken some beatings recently, I think probably deservedly”

Harry Glaser Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 17:38 The Conscience of AI // Harry Glaser, Periscope Data (FirstMark's Data Driven)

Disclosure

Periscope Data accepts ethical responsibility for how customers use its software

“We try to reject the view that we provide a tool, and therefore we have no responsibility for the tool. You know, it's yours now. Use it. And so we try to do a few things. First of all, we try to accept responsibility for how the tool is being used and act acc…”

Harry Glaser Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 22:08 The Conscience of AI // Harry Glaser, Periscope Data (FirstMark's Data Driven)

Disclosure

Periscope Data intentionally rejects black-box AI in favor of human-operated tools

“We are pretty queasy about, you know, AI in a box. Press this button, AI a thing, it'll predict for you, you're going to be great. We make a tool, we frame it as a tool for data professionals on purpose. The idea is there should be a person making these, you k…”

Harry Glaser Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 22:51 The Conscience of AI // Harry Glaser, Periscope Data (FirstMark's Data Driven)

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Glaser: Facebook feed algorithm generated historic business value in computing

“In fact, it would be hard to name a piece of machine intelligence that has generated more business value, maybe in the history of computing, than the rancor that the Facebook team built.”

Harry Glaser Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 2:54 The Conscience of AI // Harry Glaser, Periscope Data (FirstMark's Data Driven)

Insight

Glaser: Data professionals must specify how their AI should be restricted

“When you build something like this, when you set out to build something like this, you start to take responsibility for how is it going to be used in the world. As you frame it out, as you put it out there, as you say to the world, here is a cool thing that te…”

Harry Glaser Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 4:41 The Conscience of AI // Harry Glaser, Periscope Data (FirstMark's Data Driven)

Assertion Supported

Glaser: European-built facial recognition performed worse on non-European faces

Harry Glaser Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 5:21 The Conscience of AI // Harry Glaser, Periscope Data (FirstMark's Data Driven)

Insight

Glaser: Chief Data Officers must act as corporate moral authorities

“I think chief data officers can occupy the same role at these companies. If you are thinking about eventually getting to a C-level position at your company, or if you are already a chief data officer, you can be the moral authority internally and externally fo…”

Harry Glaser Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 11:43 The Conscience of AI // Harry Glaser, Periscope Data (FirstMark's Data Driven)

Insight

Glaser: A company that silences ethical dialogue is a bad workplace

“And if we feel like we're not having that dialogue, and we feel like we're being told to just put our head down and go back to work and not have this conversation, That, I think, would be more problematic and, ah, evidence of a place where maybe, ah, you don't…”

Harry Glaser Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 18:16 The Conscience of AI // Harry Glaser, Periscope Data (FirstMark's Data Driven)

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Periscope Data customers spend about 20 hours per week in product

“Customers spend about 20 hours per user per week in the product.”

Harry Glaser Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 8:29 The Conscience of AI // Harry Glaser, Periscope Data (FirstMark's Data Driven)

Assertion Contradicted

Crisis Text Line uses machine learning to suggest real-time volunteer responses

“They have started using machine learning to suggest answers in real time to the responders of these text messages”

Harry Glaser Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 9:41 The Conscience of AI // Harry Glaser, Periscope Data (FirstMark's Data Driven)

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
The Conscience of AI // Harry Glaser, Periscope Data (FirstMark's Data Driven)	Apr 9, 2018	17m

Harry Glaser

The record, in short

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