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Artificial Intelligence (AI) And Eurocentric Knowledge Traditions – OpEd

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08.07.2026

AI is Deepening Eurocentric Bias — Most AI models are trained on European datasets and languages, embedding Eurocentric worldviews that marginalise indigenous knowledge from Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

AI Reinforces Colonial Knowledge Hierarchies — By privileging dominant narratives and Cartesian dualism, AI undermines its own potential for democratisation, decolonisation, and genuine diversity.

Decolonising AI is Essential — True progress requires collective ownership and governance that incorporates the full spectrum of global knowledge traditions, not just Eurocentric data.

The booming growth of AI, along with its evolving engagement with everyday issues, reveals that AI is set to become a staple of daily life—mapping and shaping people’s choices across everything from food and friendship to family, health, and livelihoods. AI is going to be a crucial facilitator—and determinant—of human life in the future, and there are no two ways about it. Its inalienable presence in human life and society poses both opportunities and threats. 

The opportunity lies in further deepening citizenship rights, democratising, and decolonising all forms of knowledge, society, politics, culture, and the economy, steering them along a progressive path toward equality, justice, and liberty. The threats, however, come from the inherent bias embedded within AI systems and their Large Language Models (LLMs)—biases that originate in skewed methods of data collection, categorisation, management, and storage. This database infrastructure........

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