person
Ruha Benjamin
Princeton sociologist; 'Race After Technology'
Princeton sociologist whose 2019 Race After Technology coined 'the New Jim Code', the way digital technologies reinforce racial hierarchies. Central voice in the civil-rights framing of AI governance.
current Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University
Strategy positions
Governance firstendorses
Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimesArgues AI systems routinely reinforce racial hierarchies; governance must centre civil rights and lived experience.
“The New Jim Code: the employment of new technologies that reflect and reproduce existing inequities but that are promoted and perceived as more objective or progressive than the discriminatory systems of a previous era.”
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.