Responsible Relations for <scp>AI</scp> Ethics

Abstract Artificial Intelligence is rapidly altering our landscapes and relationships, yet current regulatory frameworks presume universal meanings of personhood and environment. Drawing upon decolonial methods and womanist theories, I argue that Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies reorient approaches to the regulation of AI to align with ethical values. This begins at the extractive stage and attends to modes of production before considering aims and applications. Nuanced understandings of what it means to be human and the importance of responsible relations are necessary for ethical action. Womanism presents invaluable definitions of what it means to be human outside identifying with our work and as consumers. Responsible relations attend to kinship among humans and more‐than‐humans, spirituality, reciprocity, contextuality, and power. Without decolonial interventions, AI will continue to reproduce historical patterns of colonial capitalism, environmental racism, and AI nationalism.