Detroit's Project Green Light and the "New Jim Code"
Date
Oct 1, 2020
Abstract
This article uses Ruha Benjamin's concept of the "New Jim Code," the racial bias embedded in the AI technology, to discuss the City of Detroit's "Project Green Light" surveillance system, which has misrecognized and wrongly identified people of color as persons of interest for crimes they did not commit.
Publisher
Public Seminar
Subject Terms
police; race; racial profiling; surveillance; technology; Project Green Light; Detroit, Michigan; artificial intelligence
Organizational Publisher
The New School
URL/Website
Files
Collection
Citation
Vince Carducci, “Detroit's Project Green Light and the "New Jim Code",” CCS Research Repository, accessed July 27, 2024, https://omeka.collegeforcreativestudies.edu/items/show/51.