商品描述
AI in and for Africa: A Humanistic Perspective explores the convoluted intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) with Africa's unique socio-economic realities. This book is the first of its kind to provide a comprehensive overview of how AI is currently being deployed on the African continent.
Given the existence of significant disparities in Africa related to gender, race, labour, and power, the book argues that the continent requires different AI solutions to its problems, ones that are not founded on technological determinism or exclusively on the adoption of Eurocentric or Western-centric worldviews. It embraces a decolonial approach to exploring and addressing issues such as AI's diversity crisis, the absence of ethical policies around AI that are tailor-made for Africa, the ever-widening digital divide, and the ongoing practice of dismissing African knowledge systems in the contexts of AI research and education. Although the book suggests a number of humanistic strategies with the goal of ensuring that Africa does not appropriate AI in a manner that is skewed in favour of a privileged few, it does not support the notion that the continent should simply opt for a "one-size-fits-all" solution either. Rather, in light of Africa's rich diversity, the book embraces the need for plurality within different regions' AI ecosystems. The book advocates that Africa-inclusive AI policies incorporate a relational ethics of care which explicitly addresses how Africa's unique landscape is entwined in an AI ecosystem. The book also works to provide actionable AI tenets that can be incorporated into policy documents that suit Africa's needs.
This book will be of great interest to researchers, students, and readers who wish to critically appraise the different facets of AI in the context of Africa, across many areas that run the gamut from education, gender studies, and linguistics to agriculture, data science, and economics. This book is of special appeal to scholars in disciplines including anthropology, computer science, philosophy, and sociology, to name a few.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
「AI在非洲的應用與非洲的人文觀點」探討人工智慧（AI）與非洲獨特的社會經濟現實之交錯。這本書是第一本全面介紹AI在非洲大陸上的應用的著作。
考慮到非洲在性別、種族、勞動力和權力方面存在顯著差異，本書主張非洲大陸需要針對其問題提供不同的AI解決方案，這些解決方案不是建立在技術決定論或僅僅採用歐洲中心主義或西方中心主義的世界觀上。本書採用去殖民化的方法來探討和解決AI多樣性危機、缺乏針對非洲量身定制的AI倫理政策、日益擴大的數字鴻溝以及在AI研究和教育背景下忽視非洲知識體系的問題。儘管本書提出了一些人文主義策略，旨在確保非洲不會以偏袒少數特權者的方式擁有AI，但它也不支持大陸應該選擇「一刀切」的解決方案。相反，鑑於非洲的豐富多樣性，本書主張不同地區的AI生態系統需要多元化。本書主張非洲包容性的AI政策應該納入關懷倫理，明確解決非洲獨特景觀與AI生態系統的交織問題。本書還努力提供可行的AI原則，可納入適合非洲需求的政策文件中。
這本書對於希望在非洲背景下批判性評估AI不同方面的研究人員、學生和讀者非常有興趣，這些方面涵蓋了從教育、性別研究和語言學到農業、數據科學和經濟學等多個領域。這本書對於人類學、計算機科學、哲學和社會學等學科的學者尤其有吸引力。
作者簡介
Susan Brokensha is an applied linguist at the University of the Free State, South Africa, and co-convenor of the ethics and governance group located in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Digital Futures (ICDF) at the university.
Eduan Kotzé is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Informatics at the University of the Free State.
Burgert A. Senekal is a Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Science and Informatics at the University of the Free State.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Susan Brokensha是南非自由邦大學的應用語言學家，也是該大學跨學科數位未來中心（ICDF）內的倫理與治理小組的共同召集人。
Eduan Kotzé是南非自由邦大學計算機科學與資訊學系的副教授和系主任。
Burgert A. Senekal是南非自由邦大學計算機科學與資訊學系的研究員。
