We Be Imagining

Sipping on NYPD Tears: Public Oversight of Surveillance Technologies (with Rashida Richardson)


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Rashida Richardson, Director of Policy at the AI Now Institute joins the WBI show to discuss the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology (POST) Act she wrote while at NYCLU, the limitations of the law as a tool in addressing or mitigating the harm of automated decision making systems (ADSs) and the amount of time she has for institutions waking up from their 450 year slumber to the realities of racial capitalism.
How can we distinguish the types of action big tech companies including Microsoft, Amazon and IBM are taking to respond to public demands for them to end contracts with law enforcement? 
How can we distinguish the types of action big tech companies including Microsoft, Amazon and IBM are taking to respond to public demands to end contracts with law enforcement? She puts us on the spot asking, will the title of this podcast will get to most of America? Will we have a little more imagination on what makes an actually racially equitable and just society because the efforts of most of these institutions is still drawing on logic based on assimilation, “here let’s throw a few things at you and let’s go back to business as usual”?
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