Cultural Diversity and Artificial Intelligence

The speed of disruptive technological innovations, such as advanced robotics, genetic engineering, virtual reality or artificial intelligence, together with the accelerating territorial globalization of these technological changes, raise crucial questions about what will happen to cultural diversity. The technological imaginary seems, at first sight, to leave little space in the future for multiple cultures to reproduce and interact with each other. Is it feasible that the transformations of life in society that technological acceleration is generating, coexist with the diversity of cultures? What degrees of freedom are there for cultures that question this acceleration of artificial intelligence to be heard? From the other side, how are diversities made visible by those who develop artificial intelligence? Sheila Jasanoff speaks of three types of traps that we must think about when approaching this problem: the trap of inevitability, the trap of singularity and the trap of speed. The philosopher, a specialist in the history of science and technology, questions these three traps because, she argues: AI is constructed, not determined and progress is not assured; there are multiple ways of understanding intelligence that AI does not contemplate; and speed is not a sign of the best, but slowness can be a good advisor when it comes to such profound disruptions. This paper will discuss whether or not the advance of AI tends to homogenize the diversity of cultures.