Ancestors in the machine: personhood, spirituality, and artificial intelligence – AI ethics in African cosmology

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Re(senhas)
Published
22 Oct 2026
Authors
Amos Francis Dike

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping human agency, knowledge production, decision-making, and social relations, raising ethical questions about personhood, responsibility, and technological governance. Although existing scholarship addresses relational personhood, Ubuntu, decolonial AI, indigenous knowledge, data justice, and responsible innovation, ancestral ontology and cultural memory remain comparatively underexplored in AI ethics. This study examines how African, particularly Igbo, cosmological understandings of personhood, relationality, spirituality, community, and ancestral continuity can inform ethical AI development and governance. It aims to develop an Ancestral-Relational…

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