'Danger is not only that today’s technology fails to be directed to our most urgent civilizational needs. It’s that technologists’ apparent loss of interest in humane innovation is depleting our collectve faith in our own powers of invention'Shannon Vallor technologyreview.com/2022/10/21/106…

”We must remember that we are human beings and we need to apply human values, whatever we do. Principally we need to be motivated by warm-heartedness. Technology is supposed to serve human needs; therefore, it needs to be guided by human values.”

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“Even if new algorithms are designed on the basis of diverse image sets …, they are still vulnerable to being used for inherently harmful and oppressive purposes, such as the surveillance of minority communities.” in ⁦nature⁩ nature.com/articles/d4158…

It's all mathematics.

So I found out why Amazon has restricted reviews of my book (Hold Them Close) and it's well...heartbreaking. My book is considered to have 'sensitive content.' Because it's about race. That makes it a target. So, yeah for 30-60 days only verified customers can review.

Nigerians are my favourite people on this planet. What kind of chaos is this.

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“whether or not technology can be thought of as good or bad depends on how it is used. We human beings should not be slaves to technology or machines.' His Holiness the Dalia Lama during our conversation dalailama.com/news/2022/meet…

This makes me think about how labeling decisions in medical AI can codify existing biases and medical racism. This page is from Abeba Birhane’s thesis, which is a must read.

Thinking is hard. That sounds condescending, but it's not. Learning to think critically is a complicated process, about which multiple articles, and books and theories have been written and I don't know how many people stop to think about how truly difficult it is..

Rumors die when it hits a wise person’s ear.

'the surveillance business model has calcified. We have a handful of big tech companies. They control the infrastructure, they have the capacity to continually gather data' Being able to communicate privately is 'existentially important for a livable future' Meredith Whittaker

Your one MUST READ data governance + data equity article of the year 👇

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