Katleen Gabriels gave a lecture for the Universiteit van Vlaanderen (the Flemish counterpart of ‘Universiteit van Nederland’) on ‘Can robots discriminate?’.
Throughout the history of technology there are many discriminating designs. We, humans, have a lot of prejudices in general, conscious and unconscious. And designers are only humans too…
Gabriels explains in the lecture how discrimination surreptitiously sneaks into computer technology.