I am not afraid of robotics. I am afraid of what happens if we only let white affluent men control robotic programming.

I've always been interested in robotics, but I never really had a chance to be in the same spaces. At NYU I began to be interested in digital racism, and how our internalized biases can really really do a number on our creations. Like humans, robots aren't inherently evil.

I am got a chance to work in HCI and I'm still learning. I'm not an expert, my coworkers and mentor are. The longer I work in the space, the longer I wonder if I should just stay. The way we *design* and create is influenced by our lives. If you think robots=war, you build that.

Who finances the robots, who programs it, who designs it... That all matters. Why are the robots the color they are? The shape they are? The music they dance to? Why is one robot a dog? Seems silly to ask some of these, but it matters. We design and create from what we know.