"The community must be the author of its own world."
In the latest from our speculative essay series, Adio envisions a future in which a Zimbabwean community rejects an AI surveillance program and instead designs a cattle-tracking system, drawing upon the relational data governance it has practiced for generations.
https://dair-institute.org/blog/whose-categories-whose-ai/
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