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SUMMARY:Technology and Race: The role of big tech
DESCRIPTION:Earlier this month\, Google fired one of its most prominent Bla
 ck researchers over an email she sent criticizing the company’s efforts 
 in both hiring a diverse workforce and removing biases that have been buil
 t into its artificial intelligence technology. Her dismissal has sparked r
 age both internally at Google and around the world as yet another example 
 of Big Tech’s failures to adequately address diversity\, equity&nbsp\;an
 d inclusion. The year 2020 has been a time of reckoning for this country a
 round the impact of systemic racism on the health\, safety\, mobility&nbsp
 \;and socioeconomic status of Black and brown people in the United States.
 While technology has certainly helped jump start movements like Black Live
 s Matter\, critics say it has also played a role in not just amplifying ra
 cial tensions but has also actively reinforced systemic racism through the
  lack of diversity in its creators and the inherent biases within its algo
 rithms themselves. Jim Steyer\, CEO and founder of Common Sense Media and 
 author of the book&nbsp\;Which Side of History: How Technology Is Reshapin
 g Technology and Our Lives\, has devoted a section of the book to explorin
 g just how entangled Silicon Valley has become in our national history of 
 racism and inequality.In this program\, Steyer will be joined by book cont
 ributors Ellen Pao\, CEO of Project Incude\, and Theodore Shaw\, director 
 of the Center for Civil Rights at the University of North Carolina School 
 of Law. They&nbsp\;will discuss technology’s role in exacerbating racial
  inequality in the United States&nbsp\;and the leadership role Big Tech ne
 eds to take in order to move the nation forward. We’ll explore how racia
 l inequality is baked into the very fabric of technological platforms\, an
 d how diversity\, inclusion&nbsp\;and equity might hold the solution to ch
 anging its course.
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LOCATION:110 The Embarcadero \, San Francisco (Vereinigte Staaten von Ameri
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