Unite Brief 2023(8) - Towards a More Comprehensive AI Ethics: How Global South

Given the recent history of colonial occupation and neocolonial subordination, assessing the impact and uses of AI from the perspective of the Global South is a prerequisite for any meaningful AI ethics paradigm. [...] This brief shows how a refocus on perspectives of the Global South enriches the understanding of the impact of AI in our societies. [...] Numerous guidelines have been drafted to address the problems with the use of AI and outline the responsibility of the technology sector (Jobin, Ienca and Vayena, 2019). [...] The concept of ‘slow violence’ (Nixon, 2011) is useful to better conceptualize the impact of AI, and relatedly how and why the Global South is excluded from setting the agenda around AI Ethics. [...] To summarize here some of the implications at a level of generality and relevance to this brief, the following trends can be identified: • There is a strong focus on the working of AI as an extension of colonial power and the negative influence of this on the continent and how these forms of knowledge production are situated in oppressive structures (Kadiri, 2021).