person

Safiya Umoja Noble
UCLA professor; Algorithms of Oppression author
UCLA Internet Studies professor whose 2018 Algorithms of Oppression documented how search engines encode racism. MacArthur Fellow. Founding director of the Center on Race and Digital Justice.
current Professor of Gender Studies and African American Studies, UCLA
Strategy positions
Governance firstendorses
Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimesArgues algorithmic systems encode and amplify historical racial discrimination; governance must address upstream representation, not just output.
Search engines are not neutral. They are predicated on the commercial imperatives of the corporations that build them.
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Record last updated 2026-04-24.