ABSTRACT

AI is altering not only local and global society, but what it means to be human, or, to be counted as such. In the midst of concerns about the ethics of AI, calls are emerging for AI to be decolonized. What does the decolonization of AI imply? This article explores this question, writing from the post-colony of South Africa where the imbrications of race, colonialism and technology have been experienced and debated in ways that hold global meaning and relevance for this discussion. Proceeding in two parts, this article explores the notion of de/coloniality and its emphasis on undoing legacies of colonialism and logics of race, before critiquing two major discontents of AI today: ethics as a colonial rationality and racializing dividing practices. This article develops a critical basis from which to articulate a question that sits exterior to current AI practice and its critical discourses: can AI be decolonized?

摘要

人工智能不仅在改变本地和全球社会，而且正在改变人类或人类的意义。在人们对AI伦理的担忧中，对AI进行非殖民化的呼声日益高涨。AI的非殖民化意味着什么？本文探讨了这个问题，写自南非的后殖民地，那里的种族，殖民主义和技术的融合经历和辩论以具有全球意义和意义的方式进行了讨论。本文分为两个部分，探讨了“ de / coloniality”的概念，并强调了消除殖民主义和种族逻辑遗留的遗症，然后对当今AI的两个主要不满提出了批评：伦理学作为殖民地的理性和种族化的划分做法。