Decolonial Artificial Intelligence; Algorithmic Fairness in Alignment with Turkish and Islamic Values

Year 2024, Volume: 67 Issue: 67, 250 - 279, 30.12.2024

Yusuf Fırıncı

https://doi.org/10.15370/maruifd.1565884

Abstract

Research works on topics such as; Fairness in Agreement with European Values: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on AI Regulation or Decolonial AI Alignment: Openness, Viśesa -Dharma and Including Excluded Knowledges, generated the motivation to search for Artificial intelligence (AI) alignment with Turkish and Islamic Values. The driving force to this research work is the fact that all of the algorithmic decision-making systems include bias to some extend and the non-western world needs to construct its own value-based technological and sociological development models since there is not much belief left in the so-called international justice or the so-called democratic values. This research includes examination of brief information about the fundamentals of big data, algorithms, and artificial intelligence. Importance of thick data and digital anthropology is emphasized. Misuse and abuse AI has been identified as one of the most important challenges. Vygotsky’s arguments on social learning, social construction of technology theory and worldview theory may provide some of the arguments to construct the idea of an AI approach may be developed in accordance with Turkish and Islamic values. Decolonial AI arguments and fairness in AI approaches have also been utilized to empower our argument. Lastly, brief information on Turkish and Islamic values were presented, limited to the scope of this research.

Keywords

AI alignment, decolonial AI, misuse of AI, thick data, digital anthropology, social construction of technology theory, algorithmic fairness, Turkish and Islamic Values.

Sömürge Durumundan Çıkarılan Yapay Zekâ; Türk Ve İslami Değerlerle Uyumlu Algoritmik Âdillik

Abstract

Avrupalı Değerlerle Bağdaşan Âdillik: Yapay Zekâ Düzenlemesi Üzerine Bir Disiplinlerarası Bakış Açısı veya Yapay Zekanın Sömürge Durumundan Çıkarılmasına Uyumlaştırma: Açıklık, Viśesa -Dharma ve Dışta Bırakılan Bilgi Birikiminin Kapsama Dahil Edilmesi gibi konular üzerine araştırma çalışmaları, Türk ve İslam değerleri ile uyumlu yapay zekâ için arayış motivasyonunu oluşturmuştur. Tüm algoritmik karar oluşturma sistemlerinin bir ölçüde de olsa taraflılık içermesi ve uluslararası adalet veya demokratik değerler diye isimlendirilen şeylere çok da fazla inanç kalmaması nedeniyle batılı-olmayan dünyanın kendi değer-temelli teknolojik ve toplumsal gelişim modelleri geliştirme ihtiyacı gerçeği, bu araştırma çalışmasının itici gücü olmuştur. Bu araştırma büyük veri, algoritmalar ve yapay zekâ temelleri hakkında özet bilgilerin incelenmesini içermektedir. Vygotsky’nin toplumsal öğrenme üzerine görüşleri, teknolojinin toplumsal inşası teorisi ve dünya görüşü teorisi, Türk ve İslami değerlere uygun olarak bir yapay zekâ yaklaşımı geliştirilebileceği fikrini inşa için çıkarımlar sağlayabilir. Yapay zekânın sömürge durumundan çıkarılması argümanları ve yapay zekâda âdillik yaklaşımları da, iddiamızı güçlendirmek için değerlendirilmiştir. Son olarak, araştırmanın kapsamıyla sınırlı olarak Türk ve İslâmi değerler üzerine kısa bilgi sunulmuştur.

Keywords

yapay zekâ uyumlulaştırması, sömürge durumundan çıkarılan yapay zekâ, yapay zekânın suistimali, yoğun veri, sayısal insanbilim, teknolojinin toplumsal inşa teorisi, algoritmik âdillik, Türk ve İslam Değerleri

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