S E356: The Algorithm of Oppression
This Is Karen Hunter
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🗓️ 25 August 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Dr. Safiya Noble talks about the racism embedded in our technology. Noble argues that search algorithms become racist because they reflect the biases and values of the people who created them. Noble's research is backed by six years of research data and you can read about it for yourself in her book The Algorithm of Oppression.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the show the author of Algarisms of Oppression, Miss Sophia Noble. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:18.0 | Thank you so much. |
| 0:20.0 | So great to be here. |
| 0:22.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:23.5 | So before we get into your book |
| 0:26.1 | and the algorithms of oppression, |
| 0:28.0 | who do you think Joe Biden's gonna pick and why? |
| 0:35.0 | What are your algorithms tell you? I wouldn't be mad at that. |
| 0:40.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:41.0 | The conversations, you know, we're debating that he's going to pick |
| 0:43.5 | Kamala Harris quite frankly that's kind of what we're guesstimating over here among |
| 0:50.1 | my friends but you know it's hard to say because I think you know it wouldn't |
| 0:57.2 | surprise me let's just put it that way because I wouldn't I don't think the |
| 1:00.4 | Biden campaign is particularly attuned to how African Americans see the black women |
| 1:06.1 | candidates like the range. I think they just are like black women check. So you know, hopefully his team will do the due diligence so I can say. |
| 1:18.0 | Am I lying? I don't know. No, no you're making me even more angry because you have people on your team. |
| 1:25.1 | He has people on his team who could tell them what black people. |
| 1:28.3 | You know, we're not monolithic, but you know, we could tell you the raisins and potato |
| 1:32.3 | salad not good. We could tell you raisins and potato salad not good we could tell you certain you know we can we can |
| 1:36.1 | give you kind of the recipe for success and either you're not listening to them or they have no power both is |
| 1:43.2 | trouble you know problematic because now it's just window dressing now you're |
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