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Ruha Benjamin on AI

2 quotes from Ruha Benjamin on the wall, 2019, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include Polity.

  1. Beauty, in short, is in the trained eye of the algorithm

    Ruha Benjamin, associate professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, wrote this about the Beauty AI contest judged by robots, staged by Youth Laboratories in 2016, in her 2019 book Race After Technology.

    PolityRace After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

  2. Whose mind is it modeled on?

    Ruha Benjamin, associate professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, wrote this in her 2019 book Race After Technology, replying to Mark Zuckerberg's description of deep learning as "the theory of the mind."

    PolityRace After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

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