Bobb has been immersed in STEM education at Georgia Tech, Google, and the National Science Foundation. He weaves together the many threads of race, technology, and American history, alongside his own personal history as an immigrant son of Guyana, to clarify the stakes for Blacks as we enter an AI-dominated world. From school segregation to today\u2019s bans on teaching accurate American history, he argues, elite education has remained largely closed to Black students, shutting them out of AI leadership positions. He identifies this as a dangerous political moment in which \u201cthe president of the United States asserts that Black people eat dogs, diversity and equity are criminally divisive, and Critical Race Theory is the ideology of radicalized terrorists.\u201d Math and computer science are keys to equity, he argues. He invokes voices\u2014including James Baldwin, Derrick Bell, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Nelson Mandela\u2014in assailing tech giants who have abandoned their ethics: \u201cThey are building the equipment for modern slavery and not considering their responsibility to the modern slave.\u201d The author dismisses much AI-literacy rhetoric as \u201ctraining masquerading as collective investment\u201d and cautions that \u201cneither will AI prevent racial animus from strangling the country. On the contrary, it may tighten its grip.\u201d Bobb\u2019s final arrow is aimed squarely at tech leaders\u2019 claims of the benefits of AI for all: \u201cDoes it render the path to freedom or slavery?…will this render freedom, and for whom?\u201d This valuable and wide-ranging cultural and social analysis offers an eye-opening recontextualization of the tech industry\u2019s embrace of AI, illuminating the entanglement of race and technology.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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