Technology firms selling bleeding-edge surveillance systems to authoritarian regimes at home and abroad?

Latest-generation web cameras incapable of recognizing the faces of African-American users (yet functioning flawlessly with Caucasian users)?

Rampant and historically unprecedented growth of corporate surveillance?

A largely unreflective rush to automating immense sectors of the labor economy out of existence?

Widely documented gender, class, and ethnoracial inequalities across the IT labor force?

Camera “blink detection” technology repeatedly flagging users of Asian descent with the prompt “Did Someone Blink?”

Google’s image-recognition algorithm tagging the faces of African-American individuals with the word “gorillas”?

"Bad actors"

"Bad training data"

"Terms of usage"

"Creative destruction"

"A pipeline problem"

"A bug, not a feature"

"They fixed it in the next release"