AI reproduces colonial power structures: the Global North builds, owns, and controls AI while the Global South provides data, labor, and markets.
Overview
AI development replicates colonial extraction: data is harvested from developing nations, processed in wealthy nations, and sold back as products that displace local systems.
Classification
- Geographic concentration
- Global South broadly; strongest discourse in Sub-Saharan Africa, India, Latin America
- Tags
- governance
- economy
- society
- Scenario type (full)
- Dystopian / Governance scenario
- Human position
- Subordinated for affected populations; Global South communities become data sources and consumer markets
- Time horizon