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Transhumanism and Artificial Intelligence against African axiology

Transhumanism and AI carry implicit values. What response from African value systems?

Djimgou Ngameni1 min read
Transhumanism and Artificial Intelligence against African axiology

Technologies are never neutral: they encode a vision of the human, of progress and of the collective. Transhumanism extends a very Western conception of the augmented individual.

African axiology, which values community ties and transmission, offers an alternative framework for assessing contemporary technological promises.

Thinking AI from Africa is not refusing progress, but refusing to delegate its definition. It is a matter of intellectual sovereignty.

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