Can artificial intelligence be decolonized?

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“uncritically adopted AI systems are new carriers of an old coloniality of knowledge”

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“This scholarship strengthens the article's decolonial commitments by demonstrating that the concerns raised here are not speculative extrapolations from Northern critical theory but are being actively theorised from within African critical technology studies.”

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“Writing from South Africa, Adams (2021) asks whether AI can be decolonised, arguing that both AI systems and the ethics discourses surrounding them are embedded in colonial rationalities that reproduce racialised hierarchies of knowledge and personhood.”

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“It coincides with the larger project of building an epistemically just university”

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“First, decoloniality as a strategy emphasizes the idea that decolonization is a situated critical response to the particular form of colonial power at work within a speci fi c context (Adams 2021).”

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“In recent years, digital technologies, and their algorithms in particular, have altered not only local and global society, but also what it means to be ' human ' and especially what counts as such (Adams 2021; Lim 2020).”

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“However, as Adams argues, these assumptions are deeply problematic not only because the assumed universality is unfounded, but also because it is grounded in Western-centric ethical values that assimilate the ethics of other communities.”

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“For example, AI ethics is rooted in a set of assumptions that there is a universality of ethical concerns that can be objectively measured and addressed (Adams 2021).”

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“the ethics of algorithmic coloniality that continues to produce digital technologies that exclude, delimit and degrade other ways of knowing, living and being that are not rooted in Eurocentric thinking (Adams 2021)”

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“Decolonial approaches to AI design advocate for technologies that are co-created with African communities to address specific challenges, such as digital exclusion and resource constraints [2, 23, 65, 66, 77].”