In a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, questions of bias, injustice, and cultural marginalization are becoming ever more urgent. Dominant AI platforms — controlled by a handful of tech giants — have begun to shape not only economic and political realities but also norms of rationality, intelligence, and value. These platforms determine what counts as “normal,” “reasonable,” or “intelligent” — often from a narrow, Western-centric worldview.

This leads us to confront two interconnected phenomena:

Data Colonialism: the extraction of languages, minds, and cultures as raw material for AI training — without consent, without redistribution, and often without recognition.

Platform Centralization: the growing concentration of epistemic and algorithmic power in the hands of a few, who set the terms of what is thinkable, knowable, and sayable.

While some responses to this crisis call for more diversity or better representation in AI systems, Metacracy takes a more radical stance.

In this project, we aim to go beyond participation — toward the co-creation of alternative rationalities that can inform new kinds of AI systems. Not only AI that “includes” marginalized people, but AI that thinks differently, knows differently, and reasons differently.