Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Human Relationships
African Ethical Perspectives
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Human Relationships
African Ethical Perspectives
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Description
How can Ubuntu and other African ethical and philosophical frameworks shape human relationships in the age of artificial intelligence?
Contributing to the global discourses on artificial intelligence (AI), this collection edited by Beatrice Okyere-Manu and Stephen Nkansah Morgan explores the multiple ways AI is changing the ways humans connect, care for one another, and live together in a variety of African contexts. While global debates on AI often centralize Western perspectives, this book highlights selected African philosophical principles-such as ubuntu, relational ethics, solidarity, and communalism-and asks how technology and the integration of AI reshapes future relationships across African societies.
Integrating interdisciplinary scholarship across philosophy, theology, education, gender studies, and data ethics, the collection combines conceptual analysis with empirical insights to show how AI is experienced, resisted, and reimagined in African contexts. AI raises important questions about social cohesion, community life, and interdependence, questions that certain African moral frameworks that prioritize care, solidarity, and mutual responsibility are uniquely posed to address. Relational ethics serves as a guiding lens to navigate the ethical, social, and relational dimensions of AI.
By focusing on both critique and forward-looking ethical guidance, the book envisions culturally grounded approaches to AI development that promote human flourishing, social justice, and the sustainability of communal values in the digital age.
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Table of Contents
Part I: African Philosophical Foundations, AI Ethics, and Relationships
1. Ubuntu as a Guiding Framework for AI Decision-Making in Southern Africa, Hupenyu Makusha (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
2. The Ubuntu Framework and the Ethical Impact of AI, Abel Tabalaka (University of Botswana, Botswana)
3. Between AI and Ubuntu: A Metaxological Approach to Health Care, Samson Tadelle (Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, Ethiopia)
4. Bridging the Ethical Divide: Responsible AI and the Physical Dimensions of Emerging Systems, Dodzi Koku Hattoh (University of Bonn, Germany)
5. AI Technologies, Uneven Capitalist Development, and Ubuntu, Peter Mwipikeni (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
Part II: Intimate and Interpersonal Relationships: Friendship, Romance, and Family
6. AI and Deculturation: A Discourse on Friendship and Romantic Relationship in African Context, Peace Onyekachi Usim (National Open University of Nigeria, Nigeria)
7. Between Humans and Artificial Intelligence Companionship: A Question of Alienation and AI Personhood, Adewale Oluwaseun Motadegbe (Lagos State University, Nigeria)
8. Artificial Intelligence and Women's Caregiving Roles in Yoruba Kinship: Widowhood, Single Motherhood, and Intergenerational Care, Bolaji Olaronke Akanni (University of Ibadan, Nigeria)
9. Remembering the Living Dead and Emerging Innovation: Ethical Implications of Thanatechnology, Nothando Shandu (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa), Beatrice Okyere-Manu (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) & Zandile Ngubane (MANCOSA, South Africa)
Part III: Cultural and Communal Relationships: Language, Honor, and Ancestry
10. Artificial Intelligence and Cultural Nuances of Language Restitution, Joseph Aketema (University of Ghana, Ghana) & Beatrice Korkor Agyemang (University of Ghana, Legon)
11. An Ethical Assessment of the Effect of AI on African Communitarian Relations, Regina Kafui Eworho (University of Ghana, Ghana) & Stephen Nkansah Morgan (University of Ghana, Ghana)
12. Critical Analysis of Consciousness in AI and African Honour-Shame Cultural Ethics, Kenosis Molato (University of Botswana, Botswana)
13. Navigating the Intersection of African Theology of Work and AI Technology, Manobo Blazio (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
Part IV: Institutional and Structural Relationships: Education, Labor, and Justice
14. Mathematics Teachers' Perspectives, Practices, and Challenges in Using AI, Bashiru Mustapha (Kwara State University, Nigeria)
15. Poverty of Relations and Its Implications on Using AI for Instructional Education, KOW Kwegya Amissah Abraham (University of Cape Coast Ghana, Ghana) & Beatrice Okyere-Manu (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
16. Critiquing Cross-Cultural Ethics in Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), Nasreen Watson (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
17. Algorithmic Bias Against Women in Africa: A Data Justice Perspective, Nondumiso Makhanya (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
18. From Human Judgement to Algorithmic Decisions: Ethical Implications of AI-Driven Recruitment, Sikhulile A. Mzobe (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) & Beatrice Okyere-Manu (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
19. Epistemic Injustice and AI: Bridging Gender Disparities in Environmental Sustainability, Francisca Ogechi Okwulehie (University of Lagos, Nigeria)
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Product details
| Published | 15 Apr 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 288 |
| ISBN | 9798216487777 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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