I Only Wrote the Code...
summary
Examines concrete examples showing technology is not neutral: biased object‑recognition models that fail on darker skin, Facebook’s timeline manipulation of 900,000 users, and research claiming 68 Likes can predict intimate traits. Discusses the scale and cost of IoT growth (projected 125 billion devices by 2030) and reviews technologies and outcomes including machine learning, big‑data profiling, surveillance dashboards, targeted ads, the Moral Machine study, a parasitic device that blocks Google Home, and effective corporate codewalkouts as resistance to the refrain “I just coded it.”
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chapters (37)
- 0:00Welcome
- 0:40I just programmed it...
- 1:23Non-digital history
- 3:35Technology is never neutral
- 4:55Women recognized worse
- 5:34Manipulate user data
- 7:32The most common excuses
- 9:17Top kill people
- 10:25Social norms
- 12:30Everything is fine
- 13:00The core statements of Mark Zuckerberg
- 13:43The troll problem
- 16:11Autonomous cars
- 17:44Murder machine
- 18:45Cultural differences
- 19:40A car needs a car
- 19:59Racism
- 20:36Absenz Technologies Inc.
- 21:47Traffic fatalities
- 23:24After the war
- 23:47Political policies
- 24:58Community is destroyed
- 25:24Trump's statement
- 26:33Email tracking
- 27:45Pages company
- 28:14Apology
- 28:34The 125 billion connected devices
- 30:09The ecological footprint
- 32:31Book recommendations
- 34:54Google parasites
- 36:23Criticism of surveillance corporations
- 37:01Can one be cynical?
- 37:55What's happening in the organization?
- 38:23How can we involve people in the development of technologies?
- 38:56How can you do something like that?
- 39:29The honor
- 40:16Questions
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