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"Are there any technological advances that you would say have not been good for humanity?  I think the real challenge would be to find something that has wholly been ‘good for humanity’. Every...

"This past year has revealed with brutal clarity the intersection between a global health crisis, climate crisis, and systemic social injustice. It has also made clearer than ever the moral...

"...Discussions of “choppy” issues like racism, transphobia, misogynoir, and ableism are uncomfortable for those with privilege and that tech companies would prefer to avoid them. And though these...

"...Using technology to create or reinforce social norms might seem benign or even beneficial, but it doesn’t hurt to ask which norms the technology is enforcing. Likewise, technologies that...

"...Tools that can identify bias in A.I. are imperfect, just as A.I. is imperfect. But the power of such a tool, she said, is to pinpoint potential problems — to get people looking closely at the...

Design Justice is an exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and ecological survival. What is the...

"...I think this is an evolving scenario. And the decision-making, on the part of police departments, about how these things are integrated or not is going to be crucial. I think you would have...

"...In an ideal scenario where the education system exists in a relationship of mutuality with the society it serves, a crisis of this magnitude would compel us to transform the system from the...

"Some tech workers in this sector feel their jobs are centered around reactive problem-solving, rather than proactive work searching out bias and other platform issues. Do you think structures...

“...I don’t think we’ve developed the philosophical sophistication in the humans who design AI sufficiently to expect them to be able to build ethical sophistication into their software. Again and...