Speaker
Luke Armstrong
(Ritsumeikan APU)
Description
This presentation frames the recent uptake of AI technologies in academia—and in particular in an ESL/EFL context—through a neo-colonial lens. Working from existing research on the socio-economic and environmental impact of AI, we can see this not simply as an emergent technology but as an exploitative tool that continues to perpetuate systems of inequality and is actively invested in exploitation. From this vantage point, I discuss how we can reconcile the ethics of AI with our field's colonial past, our neocolonial concurrences, and to critique the ongoing manufactured consent to AI use within academia.
Author
Luke Armstrong
(Ritsumeikan APU)