Due on Fri, 08/02 @ 11:59PM.
“STS scholarship opens wide the “Black box” that typically conceals the inner workings of socio-technical systems, and critical race studies interrogates the inner workings of sociolegal systems. Using this hybrid approach, we observe not only that any given social order is impacted by technological development, as determinists would argue, but that social norms, ideologies, and practices are a constitutive part of technical design.” (Benjamin, 2019, p. 22)
- Go to this site
- Pay attention to your decision-making process and hypothesize: What do you think will happen as you begin automating the hiring process?
- Play through the game
- Evaluate:
- Were you surprised by the outcomes? Why or why not?
- What attributes were you prioritizing?
- How might these attributes have their own biases?
- How might race and/or gender be encoded in something like CVs/resumes?
- What are ways bias
can beis encoded in large datasets?
- Reflect:
- How does Benjamin’s quote above relate to the learnings of this game?
- Does a racist technology require racists? Why or why not?
- Will increasing the number of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, people of color) engineers and computer scientists solve the problem of racist technology? Why or why not?