Tech Companies and American Manufacturing have a history of booming and busting towns. The Big Question for this last episode of the season is, will this AI chip factory scheduled to open in a suburb just north of Syracuse, NY actually provide reasonable, sustainable increased quality of life, or will it be the latest iteration of the boom and bust cycle? Annanda and Keisha ask key Syracusans to find out.

SHOW NOTES

• Talk to us at Instagram (@moralrepairpodcast), on X (@moralrepair), and on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/moral-repair-podcast/

Syracuse

• Syracuse Poverty info
• From 2003 History of the Syracuse area’s Decline of manufacturing jobs – Brookings Institution
• Carrier Corporation – why it left
• Episode about Haudenosaunee
• Bob Searing's Article
  https://www.syracuse.com/living/2022/10/back-to-the-future-cny-is-poised-to-return-to-a-familiar-role-as-a-hub-of-leading-edge-american-manufacturing.html
• Onondaga Historical Association cnyhistory.org

Micron

• https://www.cnycec.org/ – Melanie Littlejohn is co-chair of the Central New York Community Engagement Committee for NY State’s Micron investment
• Melanie Littlejohn also is the CEO of the CNY Community Foundation. Here’s a video
• Environmental impact w/ map
• Inside Micron Taiwan’s Semiconductor Factory | Taiwan’s Mega Factories EP1
• What will Micron Technology mega computer chip fab look like in Central New York?

This week, Keisha and Annanda explore AI and tech from the perspectives of the African diaspora in North America, in Europe, and continental Africa. We ask: Where’s Africa in the story of AI? What does the diaspora have to say about inclusion in tech? Our featured guest is Mutale Nkonde (AI For the People), and we get into inclusion, colonialism, and what we can all learn from the Maori.

SHOW NOTES

• Talk to us at Instagram (@moralrepairpodcast), on X (@moralrepair), and on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/moral-repair-podcast/
• Follow Mutale Nkonde at AI for the People.
• MIT Technology Review: “Africa’s push to regulate AI starts now.” (March 2024)
• African Union: “African Ministers Adopt Landmark Continental Artificial Intelligence Strategy, African Digital Compact to drive Africa’s Development and Inclusive Growth” (June 2024)
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Anna Julia Cooper
• Combahee River Collective statement (1977) https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/combahee-river-collective-statement-1977/
• China and African infrastructure projects: https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/26/china/china-african-loans-development-belt-and-road-intl-hnk/index.html

This Episode Annanda and Keisha Explore The Big Question of, is it worth the expense to go to Mars given the needs on Earth? And what would it be like to live on Mars or in space? They interview Kai Staats, Director of Research for SAM at the University of Arizona to get the space tea.