“Change is made in the smallest lines of code” — Ruha Benjamin excerpt, 4 of 4

Dr. Ruha Benjamin explores what needs to be done to change the design of racist technology and how faith traditions can finrom culture and culture's views of technology.

The AAAS DoSER program hosted Dr. Ruha Benjamin for a conversation on the future of technology, race, and religion. She discussed her award-winning book, ‘Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code,’ which explores the effects of machine bias and systemic racism in modern technology. This video is an except from her keynote address.

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"Change is made in the smallest lines of code"

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