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ERIC Number: EJ1451412
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
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Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-1052-5505
EISSN: EISSN-2163-3630
Right Relations: Finding Deep Relationality in an Age of Artificial Intelligence
Daniel Wildcat
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, v36 n2 2024
The following is offered as only one Indigenous person's perspective--a Yuchi Muscogee tribal member's perspective. Several questions about AI emerge when we consider it through an (not the) Indigenous lens. Where is AI's heart and where is its spirit? Does this complex, fast source of intelligence have feelings or emotions? Does machine-generated AI care for us, or does it merely, as programed, take care of us? These may seem like silly questions for those immersed in the design, computational codes, and data analytics of AI, but remember, we are talking about human-made intelligence. That is precisely why these questions are critical when examining AI through an Indigenous lens. There are good reasons to proceed slowly when asking and answering questions about the fast and complex technology of AI. The author offers this brief review of some major criticisms of AI to provide some context and clarify how different an Indigenous critique of AI is. The author wants to hold up an Indigenous lens to AI and suggest that the real issue is a metaphysical or worldview problem. The uncritical acceptance of AI as "intelligent" is simplistic and reductionistic at best.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education. P.O. Box 720, Mancos, CO 81328. Tel: 888-899-6693; Fax: 970-533-9145; Web site: http://www.tribalcollegejournal.org
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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