From Rationality to Relationality: Ubuntu as an Ethical and Human Rights Framework for Artificial Intelligence Governance

In a paper for the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Discussion Paper Series Sabelo Mhlambi uses the relational Sub-Saharan African philosophy of Ubuntu to show that the harms caused by artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on automated decision making systems, are in essence violations of ubuntu’s relational personhood and relational model of the universe.

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