5 questions for Steven Renderos

Steven Renderos is the executive director of MediaJustice, a national nonprofit based in Oakland, California, that advocates for the technology rights of people of color. What’s one big, underrated idea? "Winning the AI race doesn’t matter if our communities lose. Communities deserve the right to shape what technology does in their lives. We already see this with cities that have taken it upon themselves to build community-owned broadband networks, or with groups that have organized against the use of surveillance tech by their local police, or with neighborhoods that are demanding a say in where tech companies can actually build infrastructure like data centers. When you allow people to define for themselves what they want from technology, it doesn’t always align with the interests of tech billionaires."