This essay argues for a new moral charge for education in light of the proliferation of artificial intelligence technologies in ways to educate differently to mitigate its harm. Just as Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) offered a hierarchy of decreasing social standing in his famous speech, from the most maligned to the seemingly least so as World War II was coming to an end, the title encourages a mini-thought experiment. What if members of the most historically devalued and dehumanized social groups in the history of the United States could speak first to issue this warning across time? Instead of communicating as someone who initially identified with tyranny as did Niemöller, the narrators, in this scenario, would offer the forewarning from the dehumanized subaltern. The central theme of this account is that in the near and distant past, empires, nations, and corporations were able to employ justificatory processes that narrowed the circle of humanity through chattel slavery and settler colonialism. Artificial intelligence and its enabling generative technologies can effectuate this domination for most if not all of humanity, itself, in neoslavery. It is imperative that schools educate learners with the awareness of this archetype of human subordination in the past in order to equip them to counter it in the future.

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“First they came for me:”…Educational Implications of AI’s Instrumentarian Power and Neoslavery

  • Sheron Fraser-Burgess

摘要

This essay argues for a new moral charge for education in light of the proliferation of artificial intelligence technologies in ways to educate differently to mitigate its harm. Just as Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) offered a hierarchy of decreasing social standing in his famous speech, from the most maligned to the seemingly least so as World War II was coming to an end, the title encourages a mini-thought experiment. What if members of the most historically devalued and dehumanized social groups in the history of the United States could speak first to issue this warning across time? Instead of communicating as someone who initially identified with tyranny as did Niemöller, the narrators, in this scenario, would offer the forewarning from the dehumanized subaltern. The central theme of this account is that in the near and distant past, empires, nations, and corporations were able to employ justificatory processes that narrowed the circle of humanity through chattel slavery and settler colonialism. Artificial intelligence and its enabling generative technologies can effectuate this domination for most if not all of humanity, itself, in neoslavery. It is imperative that schools educate learners with the awareness of this archetype of human subordination in the past in order to equip them to counter it in the future.