Warum brauchen wir ein Manifest?

Generative AI is already reshaping culture, education, knowledge systems, and creative practices. But alongside its many potentials, there is a growing recognition that it risks mirroring and reinforcing historical inequities- marginalising the languages of the Global Majority, overlooking Indigenous and local cultures, undervaluing creative labour, and concentrating power among a few.

AI systems are not neutral. They are shaped by the data they are trained on, the people who design them, and the values—explicit or hidden—they encode. When these systems are developed through a narrow lens or extractive paradigms, they can reproduce and normalise existing biases at scale.

We—the undersigned—believe there is another way. Through this open manifesto, we call for a collective reimagining of AI: not as a one-size-fits-all infrastructure, but as a space of cultural care, ethical resistance, and radical inclusion.

Our Open Manifesto for a more inclusive AI is a living document. It reflects the contributions of artists, technologists, researchers, educators, and cultural workers from across the Global Majority. It is both an invitation and a provocation.

The start of this Open Manifesto emerged from two Roundtables inviting 24 global institutions and organisations invested in the cultural sector, and a series of practitioner workshops hosted by the Goethe-Institut in India and Gooey.AI in the first half of 2025.