Join @sarahdrinkwater, @thomasmhughes and @safiyanoble at 17:00 BST to explore:
🔹what is ‘good’?
🔹who is responsible for ‘good’?
🔹how can we embed ‘good’ into structures and processes to make tech work for people and society?
#CogX2020 #AdaCogX2020
🔹what is ‘good’?
🔹who is responsible for ‘good’?
🔹how can we embed ‘good’ into structures and processes to make tech work for people and society?
#CogX2020 #AdaCogX2020
1⃣ @safiyanoble speak for those most vulnerable & those in crosshairs of technology design pay the highest price. We are living in a moment of #BlackLivesMatter outpouring through technology and people using technology to protest, connect, bolster calls for police accountability.
2⃣ We have to talk about the implications of technologies. But does ethics defang and undermine the political implications of technology's responsibility for real harms: being the vessels, microphones, amplifiers for calls for hate and harms? And defangs a structural analysis?
3⃣ Is Facebook undermining democratic institutions and attempts to form a public media landscape and aggregating news in a single platform? It becomes woefully inadequate to talk about good, when company-level decision have global impact.
4⃣ @thomasmhughes Social media tends to be a reflection of society and trying to interpret what is good is subjective. To devise and agree on frameworks is hard, but we do have a set of international principles on human rights standards that need to be applied to digital realm.
5⃣ The Facebook Advisory Board is still being designed, but is trying to build structure & mechanisms that enable responses in days/weeks rather than months/years, because they're in the digital realm and at enormous scale. Can you divorce the outcomes from the business model?
6⃣ We haven't been good at holding big tech companies to account, can we create transparency and accountability? And is this matter of adjudicating content, if we are making adjudications in life-or-death situations? Content is moderating decisions about propogation of real harm.
7⃣ Who should drive next wave of technology forward, & how can we make sure they don't replicate same power structures? Tech workers are similar by race, gender, class, etc. But not just about representation: to what degree will digital technologies overdetermine our future?
8⃣ @thomasmhughes Scope of regulation for content restricts freedom of speech. Wouldn't like to be in an ecosystem where there is dominant regulatory control, need more transparency & accountability. Repressive regimes exist, & we can't allow marginalised groups to be suppressed.
9⃣ What gives you optimism & who is doing great work? @thomasmhughes Enthused by movements fighting for justice around the world. Activism is cause for optimism. @safiyanoble Everyone can see racism & sexism embedded in platforms, heartening that these conversations are surfaced.
🔟Tech leaders should hire experts in society & make them equal: people with black studies, liberal arts backgrounds. Everyone has to take responsibility: if there are downsides everyone has to step in, build a diverse workforce, educate engineers in ethics. #TechForGood
