AI and the Epistemologies of the South

In this text I briefly analyze AI from the perspective of the social classes, groups, and regions that have suffered most from the multifaceted injustice, social exclusion, and discrimination caused by the three main motors of modern domination: capitalism (exploitation of labor, infinite growth, privatization of gains, and socialization of losses), colonialism (racism, unequal trade, plunder of natural resources) and patriarchy (sexism, femicide, heteronormativity).I start from the assumption that such an analysis must be based on an epistemic perspective that does justice to the aspirations of justice and liberation by oppressed classes and populations.This is not the case of the dominant Western centric epistemologies centered on monolithic and monocultural technoscientific understanding of social reality.Such epistemologies tend to lead to conclusions and propose solutions that systematically reproduce social inequality and injustice while claiming to do the opposite.I propose, as an alternative, the "epistemologies of the South" (Santos 2014(Santos , 2018)).The epistemologies of the South consist in the identification and validation of knowledges born in struggle against the main modes of modern domination, that is, capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy.The world is epistemically diverse, which, rather than a burden, is a precious asset of

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Journal of World-Systems Research
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2024-08-30
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https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2024.1291
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Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
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AI and the Epistemologies of the South

Boaventura de Sousa Santos
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Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
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AI and the Epistemologies of the South

Boaventura de Sousa Santos
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Abstract

In this text I briefly analyze AI from the perspective of the social classes, groups, and regions that have suffered most from the multifaceted injustice, social exclusion, and discrimination caused by the three main motors of modern domination: capitalism (exploitation of labor, infinite growth, privatization of gains, and socialization of losses), colonialism (racism, unequal trade, plunder of natural resources) and patriarchy (sexism, femicide, heteronormativity).I start from the assumption that such an analysis must be based on an epistemic perspective that does justice to the aspirations of justice and liberation by oppressed classes and populations.This is not the case of the dominant Western centric epistemologies centered on monolithic and monocultural technoscientific understanding of social reality.Such epistemologies tend to lead to conclusions and propose solutions that systematically reproduce social inequality and injustice while claiming to do the opposite.I propose, as an alternative, the "epistemologies of the South" (Santos 2014(Santos , 2018)).The epistemologies of the South consist in the identification and validation of knowledges born in struggle against the main modes of modern domination, that is, capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy.The world is epistemically diverse, which, rather than a burden, is a precious asset of

Journal of World-Systems ResearchVol. 30(2)
University of Coimbra (PT)
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Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
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