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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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