📍 Kaya ML → AI Ethics → Reflective Futures
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🔍 Overview
This piece explores an alternative vision of progress—one rooted in sustainability, presence, and relational intelligence. It asks a core ethical question for AI and tech education:
What if “advancement” without wisdom is just acceleration toward collapse?
Use this module to spark discussion, reflection, and redefinition of what AI is for—not just what it can do.
📽️ Watch / Listen
🎥 Short Film: “The Glittering Wrong Turn” (coming soon)
A visual parable on progress, wisdom, and return.
đź“– The Parable (Script Excerpt)
"Once, there was a species that lived by rhythm... They had no skyscrapers, but they had memory and time."
👉 Read the full illustrated parable here
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đź’¬ Discussion Prompts
- What does “progress” mean to you?
- Can a society be technologically advanced and deeply connected to land, story, and community?
- Where might modern AI be repeating the mistakes of the “glittering wrong turn”?
- What ancient systems hold the wisdom we're missing in today's AI conversations?
đź“š Context & Inspiration
- Aboriginal Songlines as ecological knowledge systems
- Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta
- Degrowth philosophy
- Indigenous futurism & post-growth tech
- AI alignment vs. AI integration
🛠️ Use in the Classroom
This page is designed to:
- Introduce ethical dimensions of AI beyond regulation and fairness
- Offer cultural counterpoints to linear, techno-solutionist narratives
- Provide space for creative and emotional engagement with the future
Suggested Activities:
🌿 Kaya ML Philosophy Tie-In
This module reminds learners—and educators—that our goal isn’t just to understand AI, but to choose wisely what kind of intelligence we build, and why.
“We don't need smarter machines. We need wiser humans.”— Kaya ML