DTC 475 - Spring 2023

  “Some algorithms are racist” “We have a problem: Racist and sexist robots” “Robots aren’t sexist and racist, you are” “Robotic racists: AI technologies could inherit their creators’ biases” Benjamin, Ruha.  Race after Technology : Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code , Polity Press, 2019.  ProQuest Ebook Central , http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/wsu/detail.action?docID=5820427. Created from wsu on 2023-03-28 23:47:15. This chapter is one that contains very heavy and sensitive topics, as it mainly has to do with race and how different races are treated and seen in the modern society. As I was reading though "Race after technology", and having seen the introductory materials in this chapter, I have come to realize that this issue is not one that would be very easy to resolve; As this has been a problem for decades. Discrimination and discriminatory design will always negatively impact people, and often have very little benefits at that. Being from a minority ...

  In North American society, taking away women, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, French Canadians, Native peoples, Asian Americans, lesbians and gay men, people with disabilities, anyone who is not Christian, working class and poor people, and so forth, one is left with a very small “core.” An image that shows the complexity of these overlapping categories is that of a huge Venn diagram with many sets limited by Boolean ANDs. The white AND male AND straight AND European AND Christian AND middle-class AND able-bodied AND Anglo mainstream becomes a very small minority . . . , and each set implies what it is not. The implication of this image is that not every person, not every discourse, not every concept, has equal weight. Some discourses simply wield more power than others.28 Noble, Safiya Umoja.  Algorithms of Oppression : How Search Engines Reinforce Racism , New York University Press, 2018.  ProQuest Ebook Central , http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/wsu/detail...