Est-ce que vous compute? Code-switching, cultural identity, and AI

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2112.08256v1
• Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 16:36:53 GMT
• Title: Est-ce que vous compute? Code-switching, cultural identity, and AI
• Authors: Arianna Falbo and Travis LaCroix
• Abstract summary: We defend the need to investigate cultural code-switching capacities in artificial intelligence systems. Building upon Dotson's (2014) analysis of testimonial smothering, we discuss how emerging technologies in AI can give rise to epistemic oppression.
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• Abstract: Cultural code-switching concerns how we adjust our overall behaviours, manners of speaking, and appearance in response to a perceived change in our social environment. We defend the need to investigate cultural code-switching capacities in artificial intelligence systems. We explore a series of ethical and epistemic issues that arise when bringing cultural code-switching to bear on artificial intelligence. Building upon Dotson's (2014) analysis of testimonial smothering, we discuss how emerging technologies in AI can give rise to epistemic oppression, and specifically, a form of self-silencing that we call 'cultural smothering'. By leaving the socio-dynamic features of cultural code-switching unaddressed, AI systems risk negatively impacting already-marginalised social groups by widening opportunity gaps and further entrenching social inequalities.

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