ABSTRACT

Artificial Intelligence (AI) research has always been embedded in complex networks of cultural imagination, corporate business, and sociopolitical power relations. The great majority of AI research around the world, and almost all commentary on that research, assumes that the imagination, business, and political systems of Western culture and the Global North are sufficient to understand how this technology should develop in future. This article investigates the context within which AI research is imagined and conducted in the Amhara region of Ethiopia, with implications for public policy, technology strategy, future research in development contexts, and the principles that might be applied as practical engineering priorities.

摘要

人工智能 (AI) 研究一直嵌入在文化想象、企业业务和社会政治权力关系的复杂网络中。世界上绝大多数人工智能研究，以及几乎所有对该研究的评论，都假设西方文化和全球北方的想象力、商业和政治体系足以了解这项技术在未来应该如何发展。本文调查了在埃塞俄比亚阿姆哈拉地区想象和进行人工智能研究的背景，对公共政策、技术战略、发展背景下的未来研究以及可能作为实际工程优先事项应用的原则有影响。