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welcome to decolonial perspectives on artificial intelligence
presented by Samantha Suppiah, Anna Denardin and Luiza Oliveira of the POSSIBLE FUTURES Crew.

as Western technocrats' AI propaganda floods our mainstream news, popular commentaries, and political agendas,
discerning viewers deliver a critical side-eye.

what are they trying to
get us into now?
are the benefits real?
are the harms real?
if we need to, how do we counter it?

welcome to decolonial perspectives on artificial intelligence
presented by Samantha Suppiah, Anna Denardin and Luiza Oliveira of the POSSIBLE FUTURES Crew.

as Western technocrats' AI propaganda floods our mainstream news, popular commentaries, and political agendas,
discerning viewers deliver a critical side-eye.

what are they trying to
get us into now?
are the benefits real?
are the harms real?
if we need to, how do we counter it?

harmless hype and hot air or
the biggest most destructive economic bubble modern Western civilisation has ever seen?
POSSIBLE FUTURES' statement on
AI and technofeudalism discusses

colonial brute force

gaslighting, distraction and dissonance

exercise caution against western promises of "advancement"

"decolonial AI" has no basis in actual decolonial futures

anti Earth biotech

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PF VIDEO DISCUSSION

taking a decolonial perspective, we first try to understand how the industry actually operates, particularly the narratives it desperately pushes, its actual material demand, and profit structures fuelling it. we examine the harms, pains and traumas caused by the AI sector.
we map sector strategy, operations and externalities to historic and contemporary colonial logics and structures,
and we ask,

who do we trust?

is there even a reliable or valuable product
within the AI sector?

recent research shows AI chatbots’ conversational outputs often obfuscate serious underlying issues with information quality, concluding that

chatbots were generally bad at declining to answer questions they couldn’t answer accurately, offering incorrect or speculative answers instead.

premium chatbots provided more confidently incorrect answers than their free counterparts.

multiple chatbots seemed to bypass Robot Exclusion Protocol preferences.

generative search tools fabricated links and cited syndicated and copied versions of articles.

content licensing deals with news sources provided no guarantee of accurate citation in chatbot responses.

dominant ai narratives

POSSIBLE FUTURES discussion videos

colonial ai nature

manipulative ai neophilia

symptoms of ai neurology

fairytale ai narcotic

bastardised ai notions

coming soon

POSSIBLE FUTURES interviews

industry whistleblowers, acting on their own independent integrity and agency, provide us with powerful insights into ideological and political motivations for decisions made within Big Tech.

this is where we start.