An African Feminist Decolonial Perspective of AI Ethics | Modestha Mensah

Описание: Sustainable AI Workshop 2024:
AI Ethics from the Majority World: Reconstructing the Global Debate through Decolonial Lenses

🔸 ABOUT THIS VIDEO 🔸
Speaker:
Modestha Mensah (University of Ghana, Ghana)

Title:
"An African Feminist Decolonial Perspective of AI Ethics"

🔸 ABSTRACT 🔸
That artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly becoming integrated into various social spaces is undeniable. Yet, we often lose sight of the fact that AI, like all other technologies, is developed within existing diverse cultural, historical and social contexts. Such contexts, with their attending values, dictate which people benefit from, or are affected by the technology, often the case that powerful groups enjoy the former, to the detriment of the marginalised. Unfortunately, discourse on AI ethics has been mostly steeped in Western experiences and value systems that do not align with experiences of African people, especially African women, as they constitute a more disadvantaged group. From the standpoint of decolonizing AI ethics from an ecological lens, this talk highlights the interconnectedness of environmental degradation, gender, and colonial legacies. Ultimately, it offers feminist African ethical pathways anchored on care, responsibility and communality for environmental integrity and social justice.

🔸 TIMELINE 🔸
00:00 Introduction by Sophia Falk
01:30 Talk by Modestha Mensah
39:12 Begin Q&A
39:32 Question by Dylan Merrick
40:47 Answer by Modestha Mensah
43:33 Question by Samuel Segun
44:42 Answer by Modestha Mensah
46:15 Question by Wakanyi Hoffman
48:19 Answer by Modestha Mensah
51:41 Question by Udipta Boro
52:48 Answer by Modestha Mensah
54:34 Question from the audience
56:05 Answer by Modestha Mensah
58:23 Question by Dennis Hüper
59:16 Answer by Modestha Mensah
1:01:25 Ending

🔸 ABOUT THE WORKSHOP 🔸
As AI development takes over headlines across the globe, it becomes clearer how such technologies have pushed societies toward further environmental exploitation and wealth and power concentration. Such development has often overlooked the diverse cultural, historical, and social contexts of marginalised communities, in particular Indigenous groups and those from the Majority World. To foster a multifaceted perspective on AI ethics, a pluriversal approach needs to be employed.
The two-day workshop “AI Ethics from the Majority World: Reconstructing the Global Debate Through Decolonial Lenses” offers a forum to discuss alternatives to the status quo of AI ethics. Hosted by the University of Bonn’s Institute for Sciences and Ethics, the workshop aims to advance a reconstruction of the proliferated perspectives of AI ethics, dominantly shaped by ethical standards from historically hegemonic groups in the Minority World, by examining the plural decolonial schools of thought that challenge the positions that have shaped AI development worldwide.

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🔸 CREDITS 🔸
This video has been recorded at the library of the
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Subtitles: Denise Wagner
Camera: Markus Franke, Luca Hector
Editing: Markus Franke