27 issues · 2020–2026
Five essays on how racial bias gets built into the AI tools we use every day.
Propaganda and unsubstantiated claims make it harder to filter out disinformation and feed into harmful stereotypes.
Despite the U.S. patent system being open to all inventors, the face of “innovation” has been overwhelmingly white, male, and born to wealth.
The gig economy includes a cheap workforce contributing to the efficiency of valuable technology, including ChatGPT.
Wealthy nations are pushing electric vehicles as a green solution, ignoring the toll it has on human rights and the environment.
Some schools are switching from the universally used Mercator projection, igniting discussions on how maps influence our worldview.
In an age of misinformation, fake news, and conspiracies, the distortion of reality affects us all, whether on a political, social, or personal level.
Congress is trying to greatly reduce U.S. residents' privacy rights through legislation banning TikTok, using rhetoric with anti-Asian tropes.
As social media becomes the basis for consuming news, misinformation is spreading faster and getting harder to verify.
How social spaces and tech profit off the exploitative use of Blackness and racial stereotypes in a repackaged and digitized version of blackface.
Police surveillance of social media often relies on data riddled with human error or interpreted with bias, which harms communities of color.
The fight against Roe v. Wade underscores how digital surveillance can be used to incriminate people seeking abortion care.
Sharing graphic videos of police brutality may raise awareness, but also cause harm and obfuscate the real effort needed to create change.
Negative experiences and discrimination on dating apps are causing some Black people to feel alienated. Others are avoiding the apps altogether.
Privatizing prison technology and communication add a costly financial burden on incarcerated people and their families.
Many marginalized people can’t trace their ancestral roots due to forced relocation, enslavement, immigration, and premature death. While white people are at an advantage in both DNA testing and genealogy.
The Nextdoor app's racist practices by users underscore the inherent problems of integrating unchecked stereotypes into technology.
Reflect on how to build solidarity for the long term, both as movements and individuals, in a struggle that spans decades and generations.
Hundreds of thousands of people marched in over 650 organized events in support of reproductive rights, accelerated by the Texas abortion ban. Today, Kholiswa shares more about the history of reproductive justice and its role in a more equitable future.
When will Facebook hold itself accountable for the harm it causes, and how can we rally our voices?
Black social media creators are on strike from creating new choreography. Here's why.
From its beginnings to modern-day, cameras and photo technology have favored lighter-skinned subjects.
Earlier this month, Twitter removed Donald Trump from their platform, citing his incitement of violence at the Capitol as against their “Glorifications of Violence” policy (Twitter). The social media platform has been abused by many, as it has provided megaphones for individuals who support policies that discriminate and enact violence upon already marginalized folks. On the other hand, it has also allowed for organizations fighting for real change to amplify their message and to a larger audience more quickly and globally than ever before.
Dr. Timnit Gebru is a well-respected leader in the field of ethical A.I., an industry that’s committed to making artificial intelligence more inclusive and representative of our diverse population. She co-authored a groundbreaking paper that showed facial recognition to be less accurate at identifying women and people of color. She co-founded the Black in AI affinity group. And she was the co-leader of Google’s Ethical A.I. team – that is, until they abruptly forced her out of the company (Dr. Timnit Gebru’s Twitter).
Facial recognition software is increasingly becoming integrated into society and policing despite coded racial bias.