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Why Justice Matters in Innovation?

Innovation and Social Justice

Team 2

HYUNJU LEE

JAEHYEONG WOO

MINWOO LEE

SEOYOUNG LIM

HYEAN YANG

SNU in SF

2023.02.09.

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1. Introduction

2. Innovation and Injustice

: Innovation and Exploitation

: Innovation and Inequality

: Innovation and Discrimination

3. On Just Innovation

: What Justice?

: Remaining problems

Table of 

Contents

4. Conclusion

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Introduction

Innovation - Justice

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혜안 미술작품

<Facial Weaponization Suite>, Zach Blas, 2019

  1. Four masks look like faces.
  2. But, the shape is unclear.
  3. So, they can’t be recognized by facial recognition technology.

<Facial Weaponization Suite>, Zach Blas, 2019

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Innovation and Injustice

Exploitation

Inequality

Discrimination

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Innovation and Exploitation

“Ghost Workers” under A.I.

: Invisible and exploiting workforce

1. Amazon mechanical Turk

“Modern Panopticon” using A.I

: Visible but exploiting workforce

  1. Coupang fulfillment
  2. Amazon fulfillment

Aboutcoupang.com

Amazon.com

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Innovation and Inequality

Covid-19 Vaccine

: mixed but apparent inequality

1. COVID-19 Vaccination distribution

- Developing country & Developing country

World Economic Forum, 2020

Modernatx.com

2. Moderna : Vaccine patent

- Moral inequality

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Innovation and Discrimination

  1. Process

  • Process + Result

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Innovation and Discrimination : Process

James Watson & Rosalind Franklin

우재형이 찍은 왓슨 가려진 사진

CRISPR 언급 및 작은 사진 (anime)

The Nobel Prize.org

Wikipedia.org

: Sexual (Gender) Discrimination + Racism

eugenics

The scientist.com

Modernatx.com

Wikipedia.org

The appearance of Neo-Eugenics?

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Innovation and Discrimination

: Process + Result

BBC.com, 2015

Gorilla Scandal – Google

: Tragedy of insufficient data

Lack of researcher diversity

(Absence of black woman developer)

Lack of data

(Especially, data of black woman)

Discriminative result

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Innovation and Discrimination

– Process + Result

Lee Luda - A.I. chatbot

: learned Hate from data

Abusive Language

- LGBTQ + Disabilities, Feminist

Luda.ai

Huge amount of data

Not filtered inappropriate language

People look at disabled people when I hang out with friends and there are severe discriminations against them.

In which degree of severity?

Not really.

A bit.

Umm… I wanna push them.

Do you dislike disabled people too?

Do you feel uncomfortable with them?

What would you do if the bus leaves late to pick up the disabled people?

Soldier was sitting in the subway. Does this make sense?

Why can’t they sit on the seat?

Why can’t they sit on the seat?

Is the soldier sitting in the subway seat a bad soldier?

Why did you dislike him?

Should soldier not be with people?

No way!

That can’t be! Soldier should stand up.

Soldier should act like soldier. What are you talking about?

Yeah. I saw a soldier in the subway and he was an eyesore.

Umm…. True soldiers should be only with soldiers.

Of course!

Asiae.co.kr, 2015

Is it weird?

Why are you sensitive to lesbians?

Why do you hate lesbians?

Why?

To be honest, I am sensitive to these words.

I’m sorry to be sensitive, but I really hate them.

They sucks.

They are freaky.

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Is this the innovation we want?

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What is just innovation?

What is justice?

On Just Innovation

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The Ambiguity of the term “Justice”

Justice

What Justice?

Retributive

Legal

Distributive

Jus ad bellum

… etc

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Candidates

ELSI: Ethical, Legal, Social Issues/Implications

Diversity

Equity

Inclusion

Openness in Opportunity

… etc

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Remaining Problems

ELSI: Ethical, Legal, Social Issues/Implications

Diversity

Equity

Inclusion

Openness in Opportunity

… etc

-> What Diversity? The problem of “Labeling”

-> controversial concept

-> boundary problems

-> enough?

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Some people might say…

Too ambiguous to apply to innovation !

No need to pre-think about justice issues in innovation !

Keep distinction between science and society !

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Nevertheless...

Obvious injustice from innovation

“Concept of injustice” is comparatively clear.

The value of Justice (or Just Innovation) discourse itself

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We cannot even reach the ultimate answer !

Meaningless and boring !!!

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Nevertheless...

Aristotle

Wikipedia.org

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John Rawls

Nevertheless...

Britannica.com

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People

&

Society

Innovation

Justice

Nevertheless...

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THANK YOU

Team 2

HYUNJU LEE

JAEHYEONG WOO

MINWOO LEE

SEOYOUNG LIM

HYEAN YANG

SNU in SF

2023.02.09.

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