Debugging the tech industry - a talk about you and me
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Argues the tech industry produces harmful, observable output: algorithms enable harassment and misinformation, face recognition mislabels nonwhite faces, Microsoft's chatbot rapidly learns racist speech, Apple delays period tracking, and insecure IoT devices join botnets. Cites 40% of adults facing online harassment and an algorithmic contest of 6,000 participants yielding 44 mostly white winners and forecasts 20 billion devices by 2020. Ends with five concrete steps: examine privilege, ask ethical questions, redesign processes, increase diversity, and support advocacy.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:15Debugging a system: The Tech Industry
- 7:42System output: Software empowers people
- 8:00Software enables. What does it enable?
- 8:38Software meets users' needs. Which users' needs?
- 10:26Software learns. But what does it learn?
- 10:52Software provides access to information. To what kind of information?
- 11:17Software empowers. What does it empower?
- 18:12You have power. Use it to make a difference.
- 22:53Ask questions that challenge the status quo
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