Who's Afraid of AI?

Intercultural Aspirations, Frictions and Fantasies
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-17234-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 150 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: New Perspectives on Teaching Interculturality

This timely edited volume challenges the potentially simplistic blame narratives surrounding AI, urging instead a shared ethical responsibility among users, researchers, policymakers and others.

Rejecting the notion of AI as an autonomous 'evil', the book interrogates how human choices embedded in power structures, colonial legacies, and ideological frameworks can shape AI's impact on intercultural relations. Through decolonial critiques, dialogic experiments, and perspectives from the Global South, the contributors expose algorithmic biases, epistemic injustices, and governance gaps, while advocating for collective agency. From African Ubuntu ethics to Moroccan linguistic and cultural equity, and the political economy of creative industries, the book portrays AI as a mirror of human complexities and contradictions, rather than a scapegoat.

A vital resource for students and scholars of intercultural communication, education and research, this book calls for reflexive engagement with AI, emphasising co-accountability over unfounded dread.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, Professional Reference, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dervin, Fred

R'Boul, Hamza

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Multikulturelle Pädagogik, Friedenserziehung
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Fearing our own reflections in AI  Part I: Foundations – AI, Interculturality and Ideology  2. Speaking back to AI (and ourselves): Generative epistemic (in)justice in intercultural communication education 3. Magic mirror on the wall, who is the evilest ideologue of all? AI, interculturality and/or we, the users…? 4. Coloniality of artificiality: Ontological critique and AI as critical interculturalist?  Part II: Decolonial Interventions – Beyond ‘Western’ AI?  5. AI and intercultural communication: Cultural nuances beyond theoretical constraints 6. In search of justifiable AI governance for Africa 7. African Ubuntu, relational being and AI 8. Cultural futures: Governance, cultural policy and the political economy of AI in the Creative and Cultural Industries

Über Autor(innen)

Fred Dervin is a world-renowned interculturalist who has made a strong impact on Intercultural Communication Education and Research over the past 25 years. A Full Professor at the University of Helsinki (Finland), Dervin proposes original and refreshing approaches to understanding the politics of global interactions by challenging conventional paradigms and blending interdisciplinary insights. His work aims to inspire practitioners, researchers and students to rethink and reshape the notion of interculturality. With over 300 publications, Dervin is included in the Stanford Elsevier List of the world’s best scientists (Top 2%).

Hamza R’boul is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. His research interests include intercultural education, (higher) education in the Global South, decolonial endeavours in education, cultural politics of language teaching, and postcoloniality.