Artificial Intelligence Colonialism: Environmental Damage, Labor Exploitation, and Human Rights Crises in the Global South

Salvador Santino F. Regilme analyzes AI supply chains through colonialism and human-rights scholarship. He asks how labor exploitation and environmental burdens reinforce inequalities between the Global North and South.^[1]

Method and contribution

The article synthesizes published scholarship and reported cases, rather than introducing a training method. It relates hidden data labor, resource extraction, and infrastructure costs to unequal power and argues for rights-based governance covering workers, ecosystems, privacy, and future generations.^[1]

Alignment relevance and limits

Social Alignment must consider affected workers and communities beyond a system’s operator. Ghost Work identifies one related dependency. The article supplies an interpretive argument, not a standardized causal estimate for every supply chain. Specific quantitative allegations need checking against their cited underlying studies; none is repeated here as independently established.

The full original article was reviewed through the author’s ResearchGate upload. The Leiden download and publisher page were unavailable in this pass. See Salvador Santino F. Regilme. The journal issue is labeled Fall–Winter 2024; an exact online-release date remains unresolved.