Hacia una IA decolonial: marcos alternativos, resistencias y propuestas: Un estado de la cuestión

Horacio  Correa Lucero

doi:10.24215/23143924e106

Authors

Horacio Correa Lucero Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador, Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche, Argentina https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2724-2208

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24215/23143924e106

Keywords:

colonialism in AI, decolonial AI, alternative ethical frameworks, relational ontologies, epistemologies of resistance.

Abstract

The paper presents a state-of-the-art review with respect to the proposed ways to achieve a decolonial AI that stands in opposition to the structural colonial and capitalist foundations inherited from historical colonialism. This objective involves a qualitative methodology based on thematic text analysis, with a focus on the classification of patterns, categories, subcategories, and concepts. The identified pattern suggests continuity with historical colonialism, where AI appears as a technology that maintains and reinforces that condition. Such a pattern reproduces historical inequalities suffered by Indigenous and marginalized communities. Under these circumstances, AI must oppose this configuration through a decolonial approach. For the pattern to qualify as such, it must receive support from all analyzed texts through concepts oriented toward that objective. The identified pattern fulfills this requirement. Furthermore, categories arise through the unification of concepts that share thematic affinities. The article recognizes three categories. The first encompasses concepts that propose alternative ethical, ontological, and epistemic frameworks for an inclusive AI. The second category includes concepts that address strategies related to resistance and community empowerment. The third category integrates concepts that set forth proposals for the design and implementation of a decolonial AI. The subcategories subdivide these three categories, and both categories and subcategories emerge from analytical construction, in contrast to the concepts, which appear in their literal form as extracted from the analyzed texts. The article organizes its structure according to this categorical classification. The systematic arrangement of this subject matter, which is currently in development and of notable relevance, constitutes its principal contribution.

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