Tensions in Knowledge Validation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Alternatives from the Global South

Abstract

In the era of Artificial Intelligence, knowledge, its validation and validity have raised tensions between the ways of thinking of the Global North and the decolonial resistances of the Global South. From this, it is recognized that modern science and the introduction of algorithms through Artificial Intelligence, reproduce colonial biases and marginalization of ancestral knowledge, which has repercussions in the expansion of asymmetries of knowledge and power. For this reason, the purpose of this paper was to analyze the tensions in the validation of knowledge in the context of Artificial Intelligence, while exploring how digital coloniality emerges and what alternatives are offered from the Global South to address this issue. Methodologically, this is a qualitative research and documentary exploration. Among the main results, three core aspects stand out: how Artificial Intelligence has served as a tool for colonial order and epistemicide; how digital colonialism extracts information from the nations of the South without a fair retribution of benefits; how the alternatives of the Global South have been identified with processes of resistance and linking ancestral knowledge with regional events. It was concluded that Artificial Intelligence is not neutral, but its decolonization is possible, to the extent that strategic alliances are established and there are processes of resistance and community activism, framed within the guidelines of Epistemology from the South.