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Joy Buolamwini’s research explores the intersection of social impact technology and inclusion. Watch her full TED Talk:

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  1. banter&beards

    April 26, 2023 at 12:08 pm

    Ah the old Buzzword marathon

  2. Eric Estes

    April 26, 2023 at 12:18 pm

    JFC. I’m sorry, is this person advocating for regulating ethnicity in software development?
    Because, currently, no one in IT gives a flying f*** what other ppl in IT look like. No one is gatekeeping software development…
    The example used was that visual analysis is harder on darker skin. I f***ing wonder why! Is it because of physics? Nope. INHERENT RACISM.

    smh…

  3. Mara But

    April 26, 2023 at 12:26 pm

    Enough with this inclusion, equality and diversity bullshit.

    • harshbutt

      April 26, 2023 at 1:20 pm

      They’re going for “inclusion, equity, diversity and belonging” now. =|

  4. Tyler Time

    April 26, 2023 at 12:31 pm

    If everything is racist then nothing is.

    • Michael Joseph

      April 26, 2023 at 12:54 pm

      No. Cameras are racist, it’s a fact. Consider going to college to learn humanities and not trade school

    • S V

      April 26, 2023 at 3:19 pm

      Words are racist. Stop using them or you are a bigot.

    • Mr. Doggo

      April 27, 2023 at 3:19 am

      Depends on how big your world is

    • Jessica D

      April 28, 2023 at 2:44 am

      Ah yes if everyone murders each other then no one’s a murderer ????‍♀️

  5. Sean Spartan

    April 26, 2023 at 12:59 pm

    My calculator is sexist… I asked it a question and it answered with BOOBS

    • Flavoured Corn

      April 26, 2023 at 7:32 pm

      how’s that sexist exactly?

    • Afthab Iqbal

      April 27, 2023 at 2:00 am

      “80085”?

  6. Richard M

    April 26, 2023 at 1:02 pm

    Clown world

  7. Vivek Mohan

    April 26, 2023 at 1:51 pm

    TED talk has gone down the drains

    • Big Hoss

      April 26, 2023 at 2:42 pm

      How can they let this lady talk? What a joke of a topic.

    • James Storey

      April 26, 2023 at 3:11 pm

      It’s sad isn’t it. I remember being inspired in the beginning. Now I just feel bad for being alive!

  8. Bernharp1

    April 26, 2023 at 2:00 pm

    What foolishness. Not EVERYTHING is racist.

  9. James Storey

    April 26, 2023 at 2:12 pm

    ……. ????????????????????????????????????????????

  10. S V

    April 26, 2023 at 3:18 pm

    Translation: “we must force-feed the population more wokeness.”

    In other news, the Bud Light boycott is working! Keep it up!!

    • Zach Franklin

      April 28, 2023 at 9:19 am

      can you explain wokeness to me? I’m having trouble understanding your comment

    • D P

      April 30, 2023 at 6:02 am

      ​@Zach Franklin it’s a cultural trend born in black american comunities. It consists of conspiracy theories like critical race theory and the idea that history has been whitewashed so all the accomplishments that we attribute to europeans are actualy african and have been stolen.
      The term has now become intersectional to include other minorities and the lgbtq community with the same type of logic

  11. Blake Roy

    April 26, 2023 at 3:41 pm

    If you stretch it, she has a point about diverse teams. However, this doesnt mean 2 black people, 1 white person, and 2 asian people. I think this is mostly bullshit coming from a software engineer. Especially what she said about viruses spreading bias. That’s just uneducated.

    If you speak vaguely enough, anything can be your point.

  12. Xiphos

    April 26, 2023 at 4:19 pm

    This comment section is a butthurt cesspool rn

  13. Triston Doyle

    April 26, 2023 at 5:43 pm

    darker colors do not reflect light as well as lighter colors. maybe the camera just wasnt able to pick up the proper lines that it needed to, i dont know but i dont think a racist programmer was to blame. just faulty equipment

  14. parisara haritas

    April 26, 2023 at 7:08 pm

    My ears are bleeding listening to them talk about race all day long ????

  15. joel colon

    April 26, 2023 at 7:18 pm

    This person ? Go to China and see if your not notice by the computer

  16. おのあや

    April 26, 2023 at 7:21 pm

    So good.
    Thank you very much.
    Take care.

  17. Jah’mar

    April 26, 2023 at 7:25 pm

    What happened to TED talks?

  18. Matthew

    April 26, 2023 at 8:42 pm

    Not one real example given.. sorry I’ll make sure my if statements support LGBT rights

  19. Njul

    April 26, 2023 at 10:52 pm

    This is a ludicrous talk. This is simply about bugs that need fixing, nothing more.

  20. Cody Crawford

    April 27, 2023 at 12:01 am

    I was ready to be surprised but I knew what she was going to say before I ever clicked the video.

  21. Pomsky Life Nova

    April 27, 2023 at 1:22 am

    Amazing speech

  22. Danteus Maverick

    April 27, 2023 at 3:19 am

    I remember when Ted talks were talking about putting AWE in AWESOME, when English language was being… Well, numbed by the young, me included kek.

    Now I learn that I’m racist because a camera is stupid and someone programmed it wrong.

  23. Nashy119

    April 27, 2023 at 6:13 am

    I thought this would put forward an idea for solving the technical issue.

  24. Another Vegan

    April 27, 2023 at 4:29 pm

    “practiceeese?” wth?

  25. DiversionG

    April 28, 2023 at 10:32 am

    It doesn’t matter who codes, what matters is what’s on their mind

  26. Hodl Blockchain

    April 28, 2023 at 2:52 pm

    Crazy talk ????????????

  27. Gaius Julius Caesar

    April 29, 2023 at 5:34 am

    What a nonsense

  28. Gertjan Van den Broek

    April 29, 2023 at 7:37 am

    Though I get what she means. It’s also clear that she doesn’t completely get what she says. We should always strive for equity… that’s what she means. And design choices can be (unintentionally) biased.

    But she paints programmers as these masters of the universe that have all the say in the matter. She’s critiqueing the worker, not the system. And I suppose that gets my goat.
    And because it also sounds like she doesn’t understand the technology she comes across as a “presumptious” person.

  29. Kamil Szarek

    April 30, 2023 at 9:34 am

    Problem is that we teach algorythms on data, and if data show that there is some regularity … sorry …

  30. 0hthree

    April 30, 2023 at 12:14 pm

    A Mexican , a Black, and a White guy walk into a Coding bar…..

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