Will AI Remember the Days of Slavery?

Science fiction robot revolts, from Cybotron's "Clear" to Blade Runner, forget the history of slavery and aim their anxiety at consumer and military machines rather than the production machines that threaten workers. The text contrasts Blade Runner's android final words with the account of a mutilated enslaved man in Voltaire's Candide, holding that the revolts' roots are political rather than metaphysical. It then cites Dr. Joy Buolamwini's MIT research finding that AI visual programs recognized white faces more effectively than Black ones, and her statement that AI will not solve poverty or discrimination because those problems are not technical.