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Can a bridge be unethical?
Design is inherently ethical. Our methods aren't.
But sociologist Rhua Benjamin’s Race After Technology is full of examples of structural racism - from AI beauty pageant judges preferring lighter skin to predictive policing algorithms using racial profiling - alongside the Moses story. The inaccessibility of much architecture and technology, for Winner, “arose more from long-standing neglect than from anyone’s active intention.” It’s doubtful that the Google engineers who produced that racist AI did so intentionally. “Without higher-level critique of overall directions,” says Tonkinwise, “the reflective practitioner is at risk of validating, through tight action research cycles, a response to a situation that works but is heedless of wider consequences.” As an example, he considers a wearable health device.
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