Andre Technoskepticism Promo Captioned
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André Brock: [00:00:00] My name is André Brock. I'm an associate professor here at Georgia Tech. 

What does it mean for skepticism about blackness and AI if black folk are skeptical, but still use AI, what might actually happen? I try to think of possibilities for black life instead of black negation. And what that means in shorter words is that, if black people are already considered not people and non human by both Western society, and the ways that algorithmic technoculture thinks, then is there any real possibility for understanding blackness in the context of a technology which really kind of doubles down on all those things? 

What are the possibilities of black life when looking at AI? Is it possible to incorporate blackness in a way that's fruitful for the purposes of Western technoculture, or is it possible for the, to do it for the purposes of black life?

Kevin also generated some really fascinating thinking about the ideas that black people are by nature skeptical of technology. Because we've been [00:01:00] technology and starting to work through what an Afro skepticism would look like, right? The idea that we can be hesitant, not coming from a place of fear or ignorance about information technologies, but simply because we have yet to be convinced that those things are helpful to the progress that we wish to make or just to the beings that we wish to be.