Moral Repair: A Black Exploration of Tech Moral Repair

What do we need to know about recent regulatory guidelines on AI trust and safety? What does one recent federal regulator think still needs attention? How could critical Black digital perspectives reshape the conversation? Annanda and Keisha talk Afrofuturism and equity with Dr. Alondra Nelson, deputy director for science and society at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2021-2023.

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The Social Text Afrofuturism issue: https://www.dukeupress.edu/afrofuturism-1
About the Black Panther’s clinics: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/institutions-african-american-history/black-panther-partys-free-medical-clinics-1969-1975/“
“No Justice, No Health”: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12111-019-09450-w
Nelson + Lander explain the AI Bill of Rights (WIRED) https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-bill-of-rights-artificial-intelligence/
How many medical tech advances came from HIV-AIDS research: https://www.princeton.edu/\~ota/disk2/1990/9026/902612.PDF

On Moral Repair: A Black Exploration of Tech, hosts Annanda Barclay and Keisha McKenzie talk with tech and wisdom leaders. Their conversations inspire curiosity about tech while showcasing practical wisdom from the African continent and diaspora to nurture wellbeing for all.

Moral Repair expands mainstream tech narratives, celebrates profound insight from Black philosophy and culture, and promotes technology when it serves the common good. Listeners leave each episode with new ways to think about tech’s impacts and apply practical wisdom in their own lives.

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Have you ever considered the moral dilemma of a hologram narrating someone's life story for them? We interview Otis Moss III about the interactive AI hologram of his father Civil Rights Leader Otis Moss Jr. showcased at the Maltz Museum in Ohio. We interview Public Theologian Zuogwi Earl Reeves on how the black wisdom of hip-hop plays a pivotal role in the moral repair of narrating our tales authentically. Tune into the episode and embark on this thought-provoking journey with us.

Nov 2023, Prime ads expected to “reach 115M viewers per month.”
Aral Balkan (Small Tech Foundation): “We didn’t lose control. It was stolen.”
Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste (2020) is now a film.
Marjorie Kelly: Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises. Marjorie with Laura Flanders (Dec 2023).
Toni Morrison’s “A Humanist View”, The Source of Self-Regard (Knopf, 2019). Transcript and audio.
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs at the United Nations Food Systems Pre-Summit, 2021.
The wealth of one billionaire compared to average US household income ($65K).
Techcrunch (June 2023): US intel confirms it purchases US citizens’ personal data.
Prof. Shoshana Zuboff (Harvard Business School) defines surveillance capitalism.
Wangari Maathai describes the Green Belt Movement in her 2004 Nobel Lecture.
How emotions shape our identities, cultures, and societies: “The Cultural Politics of Emotion” (Sara Ahmed).
“The Body Keeps The Score” (Bessel van der Kolk) educates on the impact of emotional pain and trauma on our physical bodies.
“Whitey On The Moon”: Gil Scott-Heron on The Revolution Begins.

Join us for a holiday celebration episode on Moral Repair! We talk about our nostalgia around tech that brings up all the good feels. Tune in to find out who Annanda and Keisha deem the tech ghosts of holidays past, present and future. We’ve even pointed out this years Scrooge, Bob Crotchet, and Tiny Tim! Enjoy a special holiday nostalgia session, and join our discussion on the true tech meaning of this holiday season.