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Abstract
What lies in the future of AI, and who gets to define it? The paper addresses this question through “Future Imaginaries of Indigenous AI” workshops that open space for imagining relational, community-grounded technologies. Considering AI models as cultural systems, we position the workshops as interventions into AI’s cultural foundations. We invite the reader into the workshop space by interweaving our positioning alongside the imagining exercise, and provide the reasoning and structure within which our practice takes shape. We tease out the themes that are embedded in the exercise to highlight the critical and generative dimensions, and conclude with reflections.
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Que réserve le futur de l’IA et à qui revient-il de le définir ? Cet article explore cette question à partir des ateliers « Future Imaginaries of Indigenous AI », qui imagine des technologies relationnelles et enracinées dans la communauté.. Considérant les modèles d’IA comme des systèmes culturels en tant que tels, nos ateliers sont conçus comme autant de moyens d’intervenir sur les principes culturels qui sous-tendent l’IA. Nous invitons le lectorat à pénétrer dans l'espace de l’atelier en entremêlant notre positionnement et l’exercice d'imagination, et nous exposons le raisonnement et la structure qui donnent forme à notre pratique. Nous mettons en évidence les thèmes sous-jacents à l'exercice afin d’en souligner les dimensions critiques et créatives, et nous concluons par quelques réflexions.
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