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AI Ethics, Bias & Black Representation

Working on whose history models are trained on, and what happens to communities whose records were never digitized in the first place.

• Archival gaps as a root cause of model bias about Black American life
• Consent, attribution, and ownership for community-held records
• Policy literacy grounded in real ballot work — Detroit's Proposal E (2021)

Books on this topic

The Original AI: Ancestral Intelligence: The 256 Odu of Ifá — The Source Code That Predates Artificial Intelligence and the World's First Operating System of Consciousness

Argues that African systems of intelligence were canonical long before modern models — a direct response to whose knowledge training data treats as default.

Ajarn Shaman Shu · Google Play

Osain: The Green Intelligence: Ancient African Plant Medicine, the Secrets of Gurunfindá, and the Ifa Healing Tradition That Predates All Modern Science

Documents an African knowledge tradition that sits almost entirely outside the digitized record modern AI is trained on.

Ajarn Shaman Shu · Google Play