CAREtech ✦
Human + Machine + CARE + DEI Research
Active Research System
Amplifying Diverse HUMAN Voices in Technology
Technology does not exist outside of human hands and human consequences. CAREtech centers every person in the chain — those who design the machines, build them, train them, test them, use them, and are left to live with what they leave behind — creating caring technologies that include diverse voices, challenge bias, uncover underamplified histories, and build a more equitable future for technology — one carebot at a time.
✦ Introducing ✦
The Eunice + Mary, Margaret & Matilda + Betty + Rose + Ada + Charlotte + Emily Effect
A framework for naming and resisting the systemic forces that erase, silence, and undervalue the contributions of diverse people in science and technology — honoring every human in the full arc of a technology's life, from the hands that design and build it to the communities that inherit its consequences — and a call to build something better in their place.
The Eight Pillars · EMBRACE
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The full human arc — centering every person in the chain: those who design the machines, build them, train them, use them, and are left to live with what they leave behind. Technology does not exist outside of human hands and human consequences — and a caring technological future accounts for every person in that chain, not just the ones at the top of it.
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Caring technologies — designing AI and tech systems that include the voices of diverse people and center human wellbeing across the full spectrum of human experience.
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Challenging bias — naming and dismantling the structural inequities baked into technological systems, datasets, and design choices.
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Underamplified histories — uncovering and sharing the contributions of those whose work has been erased, credited to others, or never recorded at all.
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Equitable futures — building toward a technology landscape where diverse voices don't just contribute, but shape the direction — one carebot at a time.
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Caring for the world — honoring Eunice Newton Foote, who discovered the heat-trapping power of CO₂ in 1856 and was erased for it, by asking what technologies we owe the planet — and who has always known the answer.
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Human wisdom — the rope mothers who hand-wove the code that carried us to the moon remind us that some knowledge lives in hands, in judgment, in care. Discerning what must never be handed to machines — and ensuring what is automated frees people to do more of what only humans can: listening, grieving, connecting, deciding together.
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Playful, absurd resistance — rewriting the rules of invention from the outside in, creating things whose one purpose is to teach the world to be kind, and proving that care, whimsy, and radical generosity are not weaknesses — but the most powerful technologies of all.
We are not adding diversity to technology. We are restoring what was always there — and accounting for every human hand it passed through to get here.
— CAREtech · The EMBRACE Effect
Humans care. Humans are diverse. Humans make technology.
Humans are not machines.
Technology should be built with diverse CARE to EMBRACE care
with the understanding that
humans are different from technology and from each other.
Humans are not machines.
Technology should be built with diverse CARE to EMBRACE care
with the understanding that
humans are different from technology and from each other.
— CAREtech · Humans + CARE + Tech
Select a Carebot to Begin
HIT — participate & annotate
BOT — explore what the data reveals