Algorithmic discrimination and racist systems
One day while browsing on Twitter, I stumbled across a tweet which was very interesting - for all the wrong reasons. Its contents were the result of pure racism, from an algorithm. The tweeter himself -and the guest in this episode - Andre Brock, has a PhD in Library and Information Science and is currently an associate professor at Georgia Tech, where he does research on race and digital media, and teaches engineers to think about ethics and the cultural elements of the software they’r...