Abundant intelligences

Placing AI within Indigenous knowledge frameworks

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20399088
AutoresJason Edward Lewis (0000-0003-0130-8544, Concordia University), Hēmi Whaanga (0000-0002-5415-9960, Massey University), Ceyda Yolgörmez (0000-0002-4584-9628, Concordia University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2025
Volumen40
Número4
Páginas2141-2157
Fecha de publicación2025-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAI & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0951-5666 • E-ISSN: 1435-5655
EditorialSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s00146-024-02099-4
OpenAlexW4403567707
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas29
Referencias citadas56

The current trajectory of artificial intelligence development suffers from fundamental epistemological shortcomings, resulting in the systematic operationalization of bias against non-white, non-male, and non-Western peoples. We argue that these failings are, in part, the result of certain Western rationalist epistemologies that exclude many ways of knowing about the world, and therefore they cannot provide a sufficient foundation on which to adequately, robustly, and humanely conceptualize intelligence. We present a new research agenda, Abundant Intelligences, an Indigenous-led, Indigenous-majority international, interdisciplinary research program that imagines anew how to conceptualize and design artificial intelligence (AI) based on Indigenous knowledge (IK) systems. Abundant Intelligences draws on the rich plurality of Indigenous knowledge systems, bringing together diverse sets of thought, culture, and protocol together. We show IK systems provide one way to rebuild AI’s epistemological foundations and transform these tools’ current role in reinforcing colonial practices of exclusion, extraction, manipulation, and eradication into engines of abundance that enable us to care better for ourselves, our communities, and our world. Our proposition is to fully engage with AI to explore how different conceptions of intelligence could be embodied in these technologies. In this paper, we present the tenets of the research program in detail, account for our methodological approach, describe the impact and limitations, and conclude on a discussion of the implications of the program

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