I invite you into my journey from an eager computer scientist ready to solve the world’s problems with code to an advocate for algorithmic justice concerned with how technology can encode harmful discrimination and exclusionary practices. I critique AI from a place of having been enamored with its promise, as an engineer more eager to work with machines than with people at times, as an aspiring academic turned into an accidental advocate, and also as an artist awakened to the power of the personal when addressing the seemingly technical. I am a child of Ghana born to an artist and a scientist,
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