<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Technology inherits the objective function of the... > Technology inherits the objective function of the system deploying it. A recommender, classifier, generator, or surveillance network can widen competence and care or intensify a destructive pattern according to what it is designed and governed to notice, optimize, and do. **Source:** [[livestreams/The Nature of Violence — Media Systems, Constructed Reality, and Human Connection - Workbook|The Nature of Violence — Media Systems, Constructed Reality, and Human Connection]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Technology inherits the objective function of the system deploying it. A recommender, classifier, generator, or surveillance network can widen competence and care or intensify a destructive pattern according to what it is designed and governed to notice, optimize, and do.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-technology-inherits-objective-governed-notice-optimize ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->