Cultural Incongruencies in Artificial Intelligence

@article{Prabhakaran2022CulturalII,
  title={Cultural Incongruencies in Artificial Intelligence},
  author={Vinodkumar Prabhakaran and Rida Qadri and Benton C. Hutchinson},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2022},
  volume={abs/2211.13069}
}
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems attempt to imitate human behavior. How well they do this imitation is often used to assess their utility and to attribute human-like (or artificial) intelligence to them. However, most work on AI refers to and relies on human intelligence without accounting for the fact that human behavior is inherently shaped by the cultural contexts they are embedded in, the values and beliefs they hold, and the social practices they follow. Additionally, since AI… 
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