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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 Headshots of speakers Sarah Drinkwater, Director, Beneficial Tech, Omidyar Network; Thomas Hughes, Director of Oversight Board Administration, Facebook and Safiya Umoja Noble, Associate Professor, UCLA and Author, Algorithms of Oppression. Session 5: What does 'good' look like in a technosociety? 17:00-17:45 BST. Ethics & Society stage at CogX by Ada Lovelace Institute
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?
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