Decolonial AI: A perspective on the imperialist states’ colonizing quest for labor applied in the development of artificial intelligence

Abstract

The process of exploring other countries in distant continents began in the colonial
era, and imperialism still persists today in different forms. The development of technology
related to artificial intelligence also undergoes these impacts, where there is a colonial
form of selecting bodies and minds that needs to change. The objective of this work is to remove
the blindfold on an ultra-normalized process of super-exploitation of labor in artificial
intelligence in Brazil by U.S. companies, creating a more sought-after profile, to embark on
a process of decolonizing AI.

JEL Classification: K23; J54; L86.