AI: African Intelligence

• Manthia Diawara
• 110 min
• Portugal, Senegal, Belgium
• 2022
• Documentary

Essay filmmaker Manthia Diawara draws parallels between AI and Senegalese spirit rituals in a thought-provoking reflection on the politics of technology.
At first glance, they may seem like two entirely different things: a 90-year-old dancing woman possessed by spirits during evocative rituals in a Senegalese fishing village and the dizzying development of artificial intelligence in Silicon Valley. But for Manthia Diawara, author, art historian, and filmmaker from Mali, they are connected. From postcolonial perspectives, Diawara discusses technology, knowledge traditions, and the history of science with a range of thinkers from various disciplines, revealing how little we actually know. AI: African Intelligence is a cinematic labyrinth challenging Western ideas about science and questioning whether AI is the key to a more humanistic and open world.

- Jonas Holmberg

• Dokumentär
• Dans
• Religion
• Kolonialism