AI ethics is all about power

Mutale Nkonde and Jessie Daniels suggest tech and AI companies embrace racial literacy to address the tech industry’s lack of diversity.

“Many of the barriers that came up in the interviews, and even anecdotally in our lives, is that people don’t want to acknowledge race. They want to pretend that it doesn’t matter and that everybody is the same, and what that actually does is reinforce racist patterns and behavior,” Nkonde said. “It would mean companies have to be clear about their values, instead of trying to be all things to all people by avoiding an articulation of their values.”

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