Reading Annotation Blog 3.2

 “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 race myself (asian), I have never once used this factor about myself to gain any special advantages, so it feels unjust to know that the some people who are in the majority are using their race to gain more power while continuing to discriminate against those who are of minorities. On top of that, them being able to integrate such discriminatory factors into the algorithms, robots and artificial intelligence that is supposed to be used by everyone equally, just seems very unfair to most of the minorities, and those who aren't as well off as well.