After centuries of extractivism, the country intimately understands what it means for its land to be hollowed out, dispossessed, and destroyed under a banner of progress. It could use those experiences as a wellspring from which to generate fundamentally new conceptions—decolonial conceptions—of AI. “In the planetary market of AI, we as a country are playing a specific role: giving materials to develop this technology,” he says. “Many companies are trying to extract a lot of material from us to create AI. “So we need to think from this position, this geopolitical position, this terrestrial
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