Abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has always been embedded in complex networks of cultural imagination, corporate business, and sociopolitical power relations. The great majority of AI research around the world, and almost all commentary on that research, assumes that the imagination, business, and political systems of Western culture and the Global North are sufficient to understand how this technology should develop in future.

This seminar investigates the context within which AI research has been imagined and conducted in the Amhara region of Ethiopia, and explores this in contrast to Mātauranga Māori and indigenous knowledge systems of Aotearoa and Moana Oceania. The questions raised have implications for public policy, technology strategy, future research in development contexts, and the principles that might be applied as practical engineering priorities.

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