2017
Radio

Racist apps? Anti-Semitic search engines? Sexist gadgets? And bots that turn into a Nazi within 24 hours?
The audio episode „Debugging Tech Culture“ is about existing injustices in various tech artifacts. Why do we need more women* and BIPoCs (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) in tech? What does white-male dominance culture in Silicon Valley have to do with our everyday tech lives? What is sexualized violence against chatbots about? Why is tech not neutral? More on this in the „Debugging Tech Culture“ podcast! Other questions remain: How can we design tech so that it doesn’t discriminate? How can we use Artificial Intelligence to transcend current social boundaries? How do we develop just technology?

On this page is an approximately 10-minute excerpt on the topics of chatbots (0:00min), neutrality of technology (4:55min), and perspectives (8:15min).

The podcast was created as part of the annual theme „Hic Svnt Dracones // Social Bots – automated opinion making of the 21st century“ of the Art Meets Radical Openness Festival 2017.

With the support of  the Network Culture Initiative servus.at and Radio FRO.