August 6, 2026 • 10:00 – 11:00am PDT (find your local time)
The Great AI Unraveling Series #4:Â What AI Reveals
A Community Gathering with Christian “ZacaTechO” Ortiz, and Thema Monroe-White
Artificial intelligence is often framed as a leap forward, a technical revolution, or an inevitable stage in human progress. But what if AI is also asking us to confront something older: the colonial logic embedded in how we define intelligence, progress, neutrality, knowledge, and the human itself?
This conversation brings together voices working across technology, culture, race, power, and society to examine what AI reveals about the systems that built it. Rather than treating bias as a technical glitch, this conversation asks what must be unlearned at the level of worldview, institution, data, design, and collective imagination.
Facilitated by Christian “ZacaTechO” Ortiz, this dialogue explores AI through a decolonial lens asking necessary questions: Whose knowledge is extracted? Whose futures are optimized away? Whose bodies are surveilled? Whose intelligence is dismissed? And what can liberated knowledge make possible beyond colonial technology?
This is not a conversation about making machines more ethical within the same old systems. It is an invitation to question the systems themselves, and to imagine intelligence beyond extraction, domination, and control.
FUTURE CONVERSATIONS
Other guest speakers in the series include Bayo Akomolafe, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira, Alnoor Ladha, and Baratunde Thurston.
PAST CONVERSATION
#1: AI risks, societal impacts, and “apocaloptimism” with Tristan Harris
#2: Reclaiming the Conversation and the Commons with Tiokasin Ghosthorse and Pooja Prema
#3: The Superfluity of AI: Honoring our Nature and Remaining Humble with Dr. Lyla June Johnston, Ashley Nicole Leitka, and Kathy Wan Povi Sanchez
