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title: "Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy"
Description: "[Yolande](https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/yolande-strengers) and [Jenny](https://www.jennykennedy.net/) provide a “reboot” manifesta in their book [_The Smart Wife: Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot_](https://www.audible.com.au/pd/The-Smart-Wife-Audiobook/1705255280), which lays out their proposals for improving the design and social effects of digital voice assistants, social robots, sex robots, and other AI arriving in the home."
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author: "Machine Listening"
date: "2020-10-11T00:00:00-05:00"
episode_image: "images/ml.gif"
explicit: "no"
hosts: ["james-parker", "joel-stern", "sean-dockray"]
images: ["images/ml.gif"]
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podcast_duration: "38:55"
podcast_file: "https://machinelistening.exposed/library/Yolande%20Strengers/Yolande%20Strengers%20and%20Jenny%20Kennedy%20(10)/Yolande%20Strengers%20and%20Jenny%20Ken%20-%20Yolande%20Strengers.mp3"
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youtube: ""
categories: []
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transcript: "http://git.metadada.xyz/machinelistening/curriculum/src/branch/master/content/transcript/smartwife.md"
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