Decolonial critique in AI policy-making and policy analysis

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Abstract

This chapter examines how decolonial thinking and practice can support a critical research agenda on AI technologies and public policy. Decolonial critique offers a key framework for uncovering the power relations that shape the design, development, and use of AI technologies. The chapter first introduces decolonial critique and demonstrates how it has been applied by various thinkers to make sense of the origins, practices, and effects of AI. Colonialism, as this literature suggests, shapes both AI’s conditions of possibility, and the conditions under which AI technologies are produced today. The chapter then demonstrates two further advances that a decolonial critique makes available: (1) a multiplication of the lenses we use to understand and recognise AI harms, and (2) a more critical account of the role of the state.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHandbook on Public Policy and Artificial Intelligence
EditorsRegine Paul, Emma Carmel, Jennifer Cobbe
Place of PublicationCheltenham, U. K.
PublisherEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Chapter15
Pages195-206
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9781803922171
ISBN (Print)9781803922164
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Jun 2024

Publication series

NameHandbooks of Research on Public Policy

Keywords

  • Critical policy analysis
  • Governance
  • Public administration
  • Social constructivism
  • Technological solutionism; Technology regulation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science
  • General Social Sciences
  • General Economics,Econometrics and Finance

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