ANTHROPOMATICS AND ALGORITHMIC CIVILIZATION: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, SOCIAL MEMORY AND INTERCULTURAL FUTURES IN THE AMERICAS
This panel proposes to discuss anthropomatics as an emerging field for critically analyzing the human-machine relationship in the Americas. In a context marked by the accelerated expansion of artificial intelligence, conversational algorithms, institutional automation and cultural mediation technologies, it is insufficient to reduce the debate to technical efficiency, business innovation or the mere adoption of digital platforms. Anthropomatics shifts the question toward the human, cultural, ethical, educational, linguistic and political conditions of coexistence with artificial systems.
From this perspective, the panel seeks to open an Americanist discussion on the ways in which artificial intelligence participates in the production of memory, language, knowledge, subjectivity, authority and social life. It is especially interested in analyzing how algorithmic systems reconfigure cultural practices, educational processes, forms of communication, intercultural relations and modes of knowledge transmission. The panel will also address the risks of cultural homogenization, data extractivism, technological dependency, displacement of local knowledge and new forms of epistemic coloniality.
The dialogue will be organized around three axes. The first addresses the relationship between artificial intelligence, social memory and cultural production in Latin America and the Caribbean. The second examines the possible uses of intelligent technologies in educational, community and intercultural contexts, particularly when they involve indigenous languages, orality, territorial knowledge and training processes. The third proposes ethical, methodological and political criteria for thinking about situated, socially responsible and culturally relevant technologies.
The panel does not intend to uncritically celebrate technological innovation nor reject it from a technophobic stance. Its purpose is to build a situated reflection on the conditions under which artificial intelligence can contribute to processes of epistemic justice, technological sovereignty, the preservation of collective memories and the strengthening of diverse communities. In this sense, anthropomatics is presented as an analytical perspective that links tradition and innovation, memory and future, technique and culture, from the contemporary challenges of the Americas.
The discussion will bring together specialists in anthropology, education, philosophy, digital technologies, artificial intelligence, interculturality and Latin American studies, with the aim of proposing a critical agenda on algorithmic civilization and its implications for the social, cultural and educational life of the continent.
