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.

We ask:

What if the problem is not just who is included in AI, but what intelligence itself is assumed to be?

What if we need not only ethical safeguards, but alternative ontologies of intelligence?

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.