Technology is a Tool that Perpetuates Racism Ian Cheung · Follow 3 min read · Just now Every day, without us noticing, the advanced technologies we all make use of insidiously promote racism. Technology originally aims to help solve humankind’s problems, but when society has historically defined, framed, and represented people of color as part of the problem, those solutions can often do more harm than good. For example, as Charlton McIlwain , professor of media, culture, and communication at New York University, stated in a blog published in Technology Review on June 3, 2020 , “We’ve trained automated risk profiling systems that disproportionately identify Latinx people as illegal immigrants, and devised credit scoring algorithms that disproportionately identify black people as risks and prevent them from buying homes, getting […]
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