Trust in Tech, Episode 5: Keeping the Metaverse Safe

Welcome to the Trust in Tech podcast, a project by the Integrity Institute — a community driven think tank which advances the theory and practice of protecting the social internet, powered by our community of integrity professionals.

In this fifth episode, Integrity Institute members Talha Baig and Lizzy Donahue talk Integrity in the metaverse. The conversation ranges from defining what the metaverse is to discussing whether it should even exist! We also discuss other fun topics, such as: integrity issues with augmented reality and dating in the metaverse.

Lizzy is an experienced integrity professional who worked at Meta for 7 years where she pioneered machine learning to proactively detect suicidal intent, worked on Integrity at Oculus Rift home, and kept us safe on Horizon worlds. On top of that Lizzy was a “Global Social Benefit” fellow at SCU, where she won the top prize at her senior design conference for building a tool to aid Social Enterprises with training employees and customers. She is now working as a Trust and Safety engineer at Clubhouse.

Talha steps in for Alice Hunsberger as host. Talha worked at Meta for the past 3 years as an ML engineer on Marketplace Integrity and is currently acting as producer for this podcast.

Disclaimer: The views in this episode only represent the views of the people involved in the recording of the episode. They DO NOT represent Meta’s or any other entity’s views. 

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

1:45 What is the metaverse

3:50 Integrity in the metaverse

6:15 Privacy in the metaverse

9:50 Should children be allowed in the metaverse

14:30 Overwatch

18:50 Body language in the metaverse

24:50 Self-governance in the metaverse

27:45 Decentralized recording

29:45 Is the metaverse good for society?

38:10 Dating in the metaverse

40:50 Integrity for Augmented Reality

44:55 Credits


Listen here! Or listen on Apple Podcasts // Spotify

Trust in Tech is hosted by Alice Hunsberger, and produced by Talha Baig and Lauren Wagner.

Edited by Alice Hunsberger.

Music by Zhao Shen. 

Special thanks to Sahar Massachi and Cassandra Marketos for their continued support, and to all the members of the Integrity Institute.

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