My name is Morgan Ames, I'm the interim Associate Director of Research at the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society.
I am so thrilled that so many of you have come to hear Ruha speak today. Morgan Ames: All right, thank you all so much for coming out. To view more event details and download a flier click the thumbnail image to the right. Those include explicitly amplifying racial hierarchies, ignoring and thereby replicating social divisions, and aiming to fix racial bias but ultimately doing quite the opposite. In this October 17 talk at UC Berkeley, Ruha Benjamin, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, presents the concept of the “New Jim Code” to explore a range of discriminatory designs that encode inequity. From everyday apps to complex algorithms, technology has the potential to hide, speed, and even deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to racist practices of a previous era.
