On the need to generate more questions than pleasant answers: 'Don't ask AI, ask a peer'

• The importance of human knowledge sharing is being reclaimed over reliance on AI-generated, homogenized outputs.
• Global Voices, APC, and GenderIT collaborated on a series titled "Human perspectives on AI" to re-center human diversity, creativity, and lived reality in the face of algorithmic control.

Challenging the Human-AI Dichotomy

• The concept of "human" has been weaponized by Western, patriarchal, and cisheteronormative power structures to define marginalized populations as "less human."
• Massive corporations like OpenAI collaborate with surveillance and military sectors, while decentralized civil society networks, such as Brazil's "Código Não Binário," build open-source tools like TybyrIA to combat hate speech.

Expert Perspectives on AI

• Daria Dergacheva notes that generative AI is merely probabilistic automation, fundamentally distinct from human cognition and creativity.
• Kira Xonorika highlights that traditional, non-human, and ecological intelligences have been subordinated by a narrow, tech-centric view of "humanity."
• Hija Kamran emphasizes that essential human functions—care work, community building, and empathy—cannot be automated.

Real-World Impacts and Violations

• Rebecca Ryakitimbo argues that human rights advocacy must be central to AI regulation to shift power back to the public.
• Rezwan details how facial recognition and surveillance tools restrict civic space for marginalized communities in India.
• Mariana Tamari reports on traditional communities in Brazil facing eviction through land-grabbing tactics enabled by unrestricted digitalization, noting that corporate tech narratives often ignore real-world climate and territorial collapse.

Generating Questions Over Answers

• The series demonstrates that discomfort and debate are more valuable than the "palatable" but biased answers provided by AI.
• Challenging the notion that AI is "inevitable" requires identifying who creates these tools, why they are created, and which lived realities are ignored in the process.
• The call to action is to reject pre-programmed responses and embrace uncertainty by engaging in peer-to-peer discourse to reclaim agency and transparency.