AI and the Threat to the African American Family Ecology

• In Event: AI and the Future of the Discipline

Abstract

Designed to synthesize the mundane and make our daily lives more efficient, artificial intelligence (AI) has vastly changed the lives of African Americans over the last ten years. Although growing in popularity and unavoidability, many questions about its impact on African Americans are still to be studied. Is this technology beneficial to African American communities? Can this technology become serviceable to the global African culture? How will new environmental technology influence humanity's connection to the land? Utilizing the Afrocentric Paradigm, the presenter will explore some threats of AI to the African American family ecology by focusing on its impact on family creation, environmentalism, cultural retention, and agency reduction. To combat these threats, the presenter will offer culturally centered commons as revolutionary tools in the fight for self-sufficiency.

Author

• Rasheed Atwater, Xavier University of Louisiana