The article emphasizes the dual nature of artificial intelligence, highlighting its potential to either enhance society or perpetuate oppression. It critiques the dominant techno-optimistic narratives of Silicon Valley and introduces Afrofuturism as a transformative framework that promotes empowerment and agency among African communities. By recognizing the biases inherent in AI systems, the article argues for a more inclusive and equitable approach to technology, one that acknowledges the historical context of oppression while imagining alternative futures rooted in Black experiences and perspectives.
We are told, on one hand, that AI will save us from disease, inefficiency, ignorance on the other, that it will replace us, dominate us, erase us.
Contemporary Afrofuturism is a philosophy that empowers African people to locate themselves in the past, present and future with agency.
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