Re: reminding the scope for this AI KR CG

In the USA this is self-evident.

If you look at the AI directives set by the White House and fully endorsed
by the participants in Project Stargate, the issues of data, knowledge,
cultural and technology sovereignty are made or considered irrelevant. The
MAGA ideology serves to justify world domination,  global market leadership
and full technological control over the development of AI and related
technologies by the USA.

Donald Trump has excised Diversity, Equity and Inclusion from higher
education and corporate language, and even tried to force the European
Union to follow suit.

With the strict immigration laws in place, less foreign nationals are
entering the labor market in positions that require highly skilled
academics, engineers.
There is an exodus of both born American nationals and foreign nationals
taking place, with China, India, France and several Middle Eastern and
Asian countries actively recruiting highly skilled professionals from the
USA.
And religious filters are also being tacitly used in corporate America.
And with DEI out the window positions that should be available to women on
an equal basis, are increasingly becoming less accesible.

With regard to English becoming the de facto language franca, crowding out
local languages, this is well documented in current scientific literature,
and a problem even in academic publishing circles.

The United Nations has gender equality, indigenous peoples,  cultural and
religious diversity criteria and linguistic pluriformity criteria for the
promotion of STEM and access to STEM education and career opportunities and
employment in science, technology and engineering based on generalized DEI
criteria.

Not so in the USA, where the Department of Education was slated for
deletion.
The Big Tech companies in AI with some reservations made by Google and
Microsoft seem to be perfectly fine with Project Stargate setting the tune
and tone for American supremacy in AI.

Fortunately in academic circles in the USA there are still strongholds left
where DEI is seen as important and even indispensable for technological
development, innovation and elevating social well-being for one and all.

But the predominant rhetoric, parroted across multiple platforms is geared
towards a "White, Male, Christian and English speaking dominated world of
science and data science and even engineering".

Milton Ponson
Rainbow Warriors Core Foundation
CIAMSD Institute-ICT4D Program
+2977459312
PO Box 1154, Oranjestad
Aruba, Dutch Caribbean

On Tue, Nov 25, 2025, 16:30 Adam Rachwal <ar_meme@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Milton,
> Please explain what you mean by and provide examples :
>
> “Big AI Tech are focused primarily on getting their versions created with
> all of humanity subservient to a White, Male, Christian and English
> speaking dominated world of science and data science and even engineering.”
>
>
> Thank you.
>
> Adam F Rachwal
>
>
>
> On Nov 18, 2025, at 08:49, Milton Ponson <rwiciamsd@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
> Yes, Paola,  I agree with you and Dave that natural language in the end is
> the primary focus for knowledge representation.
>
> But here is the kicker. The Big Boys in Silicon Valley or Big AI Tech are
> focused primarily on getting their versions created with all of humanity
> subservient to a White, Male, Christian and English speaking dominated
> world of science and data science and even engineering.
>
> I deal with ICT4D and AI for Good issues for my main focus groups,
> indigenous peoples and Small Island Developing States.
>
> Data sovereignty and  (cultural) knowledge sovereignty are very important.
>
> I do not have to stress that the total of all human knowledge is captured
> in written and orally transmitted form natural language.
>
> The article in Aeon nails it perfectly.
>
>
> https://aeon.co/essays/generative-ai-has-access-to-a-small-slice-of-human-knowledge
> .
>
> If we ignore this we are wasting our time.
>
> It is precisely this loss of knowledge which resides mostly in
> "specific/restricted/limited domains of discourse" that will make AI not
> the "beneficial technology for all of humankind " but the destroyer of
> plurality and pluriformity of human knowledge.
>
> My mandala graph framework is an intent to show exactly where the
> limitations of formal systems lie and how we can proceed to capture all
> human knowledge available in natural language.
>
> Daniel Ramos, myself and I assume quite a few other members of this AIKR
> CG agree that KR for AI cannot be developed for its own sake, but with a
> specific purpose in mind.
>
> That purpose is and should be for all natural language in all languages,
> in written, oral and other formats.
>
> I have networked with native American AI data and knowledge sovereignty
> initiatives,  the IFLA, SIL (www.sil.org) and SIDS on indigenous and
> creole languages.
>
> Generative AI based on LLMs is creating a world of linguistic impoverished
> knowledge and even creating a DoubleSpeak.
>
> Without retaining the linguistic pluriformity and plurality creativity and
> the rich diversity in cultures will cease to exist and we will be doomed as
> mankind.
>
> Social scientists,  psychologists, philosophers and linguists all have
> pointed out the imminent danger of what AI is creating in this respect.
>
> So to me the purpose of KR for AI should stress the "creation of formal or
> rational expression of all knowledge in natural languages in written, oral
> or other form, captured in machine readable format to allow artificial
> intelligence driven computational processing for specific applications or
> tasks in specific domains of discourse".
>
> KR for AI should have maximum "semantic compression ". The current course
> of GenAI is exactly towards the opposite.
>
>
> Milton Ponson
> Rainbow Warriors Core Foundation
> CIAMSD Institute-ICT4D Program
> +2977459312
> PO Box 1154, Oranjestad
> Aruba, Dutch Caribbean
>
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 07:39 Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> When I launched this CG, several years ago, the horizon was mixed. I was
>> open to explore what could lie ahead, looked at how KR would help
>> detangle  the new wave of ML AI.
>> To do that, we needed to be able to put our finger on what exactly KR
>> was. And that was tough. There was no single resource
>>
>> Now we have a bunch of vocabs and conceptual spaces *albeit still in
>> draft version that define with more precision
>> the KR knowledge domain, and that is helping us to navigate and stay on
>> top of the rapid advances in AI
>>
>> Vocabularies are units of computation in language models!  Heck yes
>>
>> Natural language processing is based on natural language terms
>> A first report was published summarizing the critical path this CG is
>> following to achieve that goal and then we brew bits here and there
>>
>> I can understand that newcomers, or anyone who has not been paying
>> attention as much as others as to what this CG is actually doing and why,
>> or are not interested  in it for whatever reason may struggle to grasp with
>> what the CG is all about and may want to suggest other directions,
>>
>> The scope of work has now become more focused on vocabs and concept maps
>> that define KR as a primary domain of interest for reliable AI
>> The next step
>> is to attempt to publish these as schemas/specifications.  We are not
>> planning beyond that at this time.
>>
>> Natural language is the thing here.
>>
>> Domain specific knowledge representation is not in scope, although there
>> is now a conceptual space for domain KR *the bubble on the left
>> pointing clearly to Domain ontologies, possibly in scope of another CG?
>> and there may well be terms in our core vocab pointing to domain specific
>> knowledge. Room for analysis there!
>>
>> I may not be able to read/reply to emails that raise issues not in scope,
>>
>> This is crunch time for this CG, which needs to keep its eyes on the
>> natural language for KR ball
>>
>>  *it goes without saying that pertinent contributions including
>> intelligent responses and constructive critiques are welcome and will be
>> included in the report. Please get in touch  if you wish to make
>> contributions to be considered for the report or for further refinement
>>
>> Participants working on other things, please consider proposing a new CG
>> that follows your vision
>>
>> Please refer to the updated diagram below
>>
>> Second report with updates from TPAC will be out before the end of the
>> year, I hope, with all updates
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your continued interest and participation, exciting things are
>> coming to us all!
>> <AI KR VOCABS NOV 2025.jpg>
>>
>>
>> PDM
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>>
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