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Is a cellphone ban, along with increased surveillance, the right way to deal with the impact of addictive and harmful technology in classrooms?

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You already outsource life’s choices to algorithms. Now the rise of AI promises to make your existence even easier, but are you ready to let go?

Ruha Benjamin specializes in the interdisciplinary study of science, medicine, and technology; race-ethnicity and gender; knowledge and power. She is author of People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier (Stanford University Press 2013), Race After Technology (Polity 2019), and editor of Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral T...

Artificial intelligence is only as good as the data that feed it, and its unbalanced diet generally consists of data sets shaped by an invisible Eurowestern identity

Simply put, technology that permeates almost every crevice of the contemporary human experience can replicate and exacerbate systemic inequalities, sometimes putting on a deceiving, feel-good facade that seems to promote the contrary.

Ruha Benjamin is a professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, where she is the founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab. She is the author of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code and Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want.

The pandemic increased demand and possibilities for automating care, but doing so may deliver racist stereotypes and unemployment for women of color.

Next week, University of Kentucky Libraries will welcome Princeton University Professor of African American Studies Ruha Benjamin, who will present “Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code.” This in-person lecture will take place 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 12, in the Worsham Cinema in the UK Gatton Student Center.

艾丽卡的设计是以这样一种看法为前提的：照顾世界的劳动责任主要是妇女来承担，她们将提供温暖和温柔，同时减轻人类的负担和痛苦。 但更重要的是，我认为开发护理机器人的伦理，必须建立在劳动公正的框架之上，这个框…