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    • People over Profits

      Dear Tech Company

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    • Motivation

      Dear Tech Company is a collaborative video response to IBM's Dear Tech Ad .

       

      "The [IBM] commercial depicts big challenges—biases of both AI and humans, misunderstandings between people, data rights, poverty, and male-dominated STEM fields—as issues for technology itself to fix. This idealized and reified narrative loses sight of two fundamental things: Tech companies are creating some of the key problems here, and ethically minded tech workers should be commended for their attempts at finding solutions."

      - Read More on Slate

    • Co-Conspirators

      All participated as individuals not representatives of organizations or institutional views

      Ethan Zuckerman

      Director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT Media Lab

      Author of Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection

      Kade Crockford

      ACLU of Massachusetts

      Director of the Technology for Liberty Program

      Rediet Abebe

      Harvard Society Fellow

      Co-founder of Black in AI

      Ruha Benjamin

      Princeton University Professor

      Author of Race After Technology

      Safiya Umoja Noble

      USC Professor

      Author of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

      Meredith Broussard

      NYU Professor

      Author of Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

      Sasha Costanza-Chock

      MIT Professor

      Co-founder of Design Justice​

      Kristen Sheets

      Tech Workers Coalition

      Evan Selinger

      Rochester Institute of Technology Professor

      Co-Author of Re-Engineering Humanity

      Production Team

      Jimmy Day + Elio E. Lleo + Olivia Mowry

      Videography, Kindness

      Joy Buolamwini

      Poet of Code

      Founder of Algorithmic Justice League

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