An Urgent Message on Artificial Intelligence from the Kogui People

What happened: A website published a statement from the Kogui people of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta on artificial intelligence, reproduced in full in Spanish and English, with translation assistance from the site. Why it matters: The statement questions how AI can be aligned with human values, arguing that AI reflects and magnifies the thinking behind it, and that knowledge held through lived experience cannot be captured in data.

A website published a statement from the Kogui people of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta on artificial intelligence, reproduced in full in Spanish and English, with translation assistance from the site.

The statement questions how AI can be aligned with human values, arguing that AI reflects and magnifies the thinking behind it, and that knowledge held through lived experience cannot be captured in data.