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ZhiHong Li week #3

Posted by ZhiHong Li on

In the “SAFIYA NOBLE – Algorithms of Oppression” it mention about that in the algorithms and architectures the very people/ the most successful people are openly using the negative sexist and racist attitude when they are working. And they think that the race with the sex will have more expression of the race. And in the article it show that picture of people googling the phase “Black girls” which the result is so what I expected. The image show the google result of searching “Black girls” is all the sex and the porn stuff at the first top 5 result. And other few image highlight the idea that the color will affect the objective toward a gender. Such as the word Black people implies the negative connotation toward it, and the word white implies the positive connotation when searching “why are white/black woman so” It pop up the different connotation and objective toward the group of people. In my opinion, I think that people should no view the color as different and how bad this group is and that. If we accept the idea that the old society is putting on to people the world will never improve and will grew into war and violent just like how Hitler change Germany the objective toward Jewish. Imagine yourself in this case being the one who being apply all the negative connotation what will you think. When people thinking about the issue we often just focus on will we be the one who benefit from it as the question and the result. But do people think about this question who will be hurt from the outcome of the issue. We should put our view in other’s perspective other than being selfish and turning into “Hitler” what we consider is bad but people often don’t realize that when we spread the word we are doing what Hitler did. So be mindful about our word and though.

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Kayla’s Week 3 Response

Posted by Kayla Ye on

In season 2, episode 9 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Captain Picard was faced with an issue regarding the android that he considers to be his shipmate, Commander Data. In this episode, Data is forced to give up his body, so to say, in the name of science. While he himself and his fellow crewmates alike do not want to give up this valuable asset towards the team, cyberneticist Commander Maddox insists that since Data isn’t sentient, it is therefore not a being and therefore is a property of the ship Enterprise. The episode brings up the question of whether or not artificial intelligence, like Commander Data This episode, although aired years ago could come to be more relevant today than it was back then. That is because as we advance into society, science is accelerating even faster which means soon, androids like Commander Data would become a relaity, no longer science fiction. Now that too brings up the question of do these “machines” who are capable of acting like humans deserve rights like humans. Are they even to be considered humans or are they a race of their own? From the readings of Safiya Umoja Noble in Algorithms of Oppression, Noble brings up the question of racism being enforced upon these androids. Due to the fact that these androids have to be programmed by someone, then there will be an inevitable source of racism, sexism or any type of bias.

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