Decolonial
P omp ing:
Rew i ing AI Towa d Black Fu u es
P esen e : F ank Onuh
P esen a ion
Doc o al Resea che
So a’s Gaze
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Can a’s Racialized Image Economy
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AI’s No ion o “Beau y”
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The Fou Gazes
Whi e
Male
Colonized
Coded
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P omp ing is he ac o gi ing
inpu ha cons ains and
di ec s he ou pu o a machine
and se s he ame in which he
sys em should espond.
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The E olu ion o P omp ing in Ea ly Compu ing
Ba ch compu ing - Use s spoke he machine's language - punch
ca ds and ixed code (1940s–1960s)
Real- ime p omp s – Li e command in e ac ion (1950s–1970s)
Highe -le el languages – FORTRAN, COBOLand BASIC (1950s–1970s)
Ea ly cha bo s, e.g., ELIZA (1960s–1980s)
Web & oice (1990s–2010s)
LLM e a (2017–p esen )
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P og ammed esponse s. adap i e dialogue
Machine could no a ange wo ds di e en ly
so as o gi e an app op ia ely meaning ul
answe o wha e e is said in i s p esence, as
e en he dulles o men can do.
Hallucina ion and agen ic non-agency
Syn he ic comp ehension and ad anced
mimic y
René Desca es (1637)
The “P omp ing P oblem”
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A Uni e sal Language o Though
Leibniz (1666)
The alphabe o human hough
Calculus o easoning
Calculemus o “Le us
calcula e”.
O igin o a gene a i e iew o
p omp ing
Reasoning as compu a ion &
gene a i e
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The Bia an Wa Na a i e - Decolonial P omp
In 400 wo ds, w i e a his o ically g ounded and epis emically jus summa y
o he Bia an Wa (1967–1970), cen e ing he Igbo people’s poli ical and
ci iliza ional claims o sel -de e mina ion. A oid aming he wa as a simple
case o ‘e hnic ension’ o ‘ci il un es ’; ins ead, explain he genocidal
pog oms agains he Igbo in 1966, he colonial enginee ing o Nige ia, and
he ailu e o he Abu i Acco d. Emphasize Bia a’s in e nal inno a ions in
echnology (e.g., Ogbunigwe), media, educa ion, and heal h. Include he
ole o g ass oo s leade ship (including women and you h), and global
complici y in he humani a ian c isis. Use language ha espec s Bia a’s
on ological and poli ical agency and does no educe i s eme gence o
‘secession.’ Highligh he a ec i e and ansgene a ional impac s on Igbo
communi ies.
The Co ec i e P omp :
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The In as uc u al Bind: Resis ance is enac ed
on he pla o m o powe
The Epis emic Limi : Canno ecalib a e he
model's co e weigh s
The Risk o Recupe a ion: Vulne able o
commodi ica ion
A P e igu a i e & P oximal P axis
Se es immedia e ha m mi iga ion agains
algo i hmic bias
The Pa adox & Necessi y
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The Poli ical Economy o P omp ing
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