Decolonial
P omp ing:
Rew i ing AI Towa d Black Fu u es
P esen e : F ank Onuh
Slide DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17655159
So a’s Gaze
Can a’s Racialized Image Economy
The Fou Gazes
Whi e
Male
Colonized
Coded
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.
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 )
P og ammed esponse s. adap i e dialogue
Abou Unsc ip ed In e ac ion - 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 inagency
syn he ic comp ehension and ad anced
mimic y
René Desca es (1637)
The “P omp ing P oblem”
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
The Illusion o In elligence
The Mechaniza ion o hough
Sea le’s Chinese oom: syn ax s.
seman ics
The “symbol g ounding p oblem”
The limi s o o igina ion (“S ochas ic
Pa o ” - Bende e al, 2021)
The p imacy o human In en
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
The Poli ical Economy o P omp ing
F ank Onuh
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Slide DOI:
10.5281/zenodo.17655159
