Community-Centered
Placing community rights and perspectives front and center.
Responsible
Respecting ethical considerations and intellectual property.
Responsive
Adapted by and for the communities being represented.
Creating adaptive systems that preserve cultural heritage beyond traditional wikis and western methodologies.
Placing community rights and perspectives front and center.
Respecting ethical considerations and intellectual property.
Adapted by and for the communities being represented.
"An AI of Our Own" is an initiative of Living Arts International to leverage AI technology's potential while preserving diverse cultural heritage beyond traditional western methodologies.
Rather than trying to fit the diverse heritage of the global south into a system which was not built for it, we propose to create "an AI of our own" that envisions a multicultural, diverse, and inclusive digital future.
Read our full manifesto
Building a global consortium to guide inclusive AI development.
Developing a manifesto for ethical, inclusive AI practices.
Creating test cases to validate our approaches.
Collaborating across technology and culture sectors.
Tracking the development of our initiative to preserve and promote digital heritage through inclusive AI
Through a collaborative workshop, which identified the need to…
…understand the existing landscape of digital heritage efforts in Africa and Asia as well as initiatives around inclusive AI globally. The report outlined the need to define the methodology and approach of the AI part of AAOO, leading to…
…the curation of a working group with people from diverse backgrounds to create the manifesto. They met over the course of 5 online sessions to discuss and brainstorm.
Based on feedback from the working group and others from the AAOO consortium, the manifesto was released unofficially to consortium members in March.
We also presented a panel "Transmission by Avatar: From Oral to Digital Knowledge," on the evolution of knowledge transmission and the role of AI in the future.
In the coming months, we are developing a prototype in Cambodia based on the Manifesto's methodology on Buddhist chanting and traditional weaving. We are also working to formalize the Consortium and begin collaboration activities around the Manifesto.
We're building a global consortium of practitioners and professionals led by Global South experts to guide the digital future of tomorrow.
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