Fred Dervin is a world-renowned interculturalist who has made a strong impact on Intercultural Communication Education and Research over the past 25 years. A Full Professor at the University of Helsinki (Finland), Dervin proposes original and refreshing approaches to understanding the politics of global interactions by challenging conventional paradigms and blending interdisciplinary insights. His work aims to inspire practitioners, researchers, and students to rethink and reshape the notion of interculturality. With over 300 publications, Dervin is included in the Stanford Elsevier List of the world’s best scientists.Hamza R’boul is a fellow at the Centre for Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies (CHELPS), The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. His research interests include intercultural education, (higher) education in the Global South, decolonial endeavours in education, cultural politics of language teaching, and postcoloniality.

• 1. Fearing our own reflections in AI Part I: Foundations – AI, Interculturality and Ideology 2. Speaking back to AI (and ourselves): Generative epistemic (in)justice in intercultural communication education 3. Magic mirror on the wall, who is the evilest ideologue of all? AI, interculturality and/or we, the users…? 4. Coloniality of artificiality: Ontological critique and AI as critical interculturalist? Part II: Decolonial Interventions – Beyond ‘Western’ AI? 5. AI and intercultural communication: Cultural nuances beyond theoretical constraints 6. In search of justifiable AI governance for Africa 7. African Ubuntu, relational being and AI 8. Cultural futures: Governance, cultural policy and the political economy of AI in the Creative and Cultural Industries

Fred Dervin is a world-renowned interculturalist who has made a strong impact on Intercultural Communication Education and Research over the past 25 years. A Full Professor at the University of Helsinki (Finland), Dervin proposes original and refreshing approaches to understanding the politics of global interactions by challenging conventional paradigms and blending interdisciplinary insights. His work aims to inspire practitioners, researchers, and students to rethink and reshape the notion of interculturality. With over 300 publications, Dervin is included in the Stanford Elsevier List of the world’s best scientists.Hamza R’boul is a fellow at the Centre for Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies (CHELPS), The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. His research interests include intercultural education, (higher) education in the Global South, decolonial endeavours in education, cultural politics of language teaching, and postcoloniality.

• 1. Fearing our own reflections in AI Part I: Foundations – AI, Interculturality and Ideology 2. Speaking back to AI (and ourselves): Generative epistemic (in)justice in intercultural communication education 3. Magic mirror on the wall, who is the evilest ideologue of all? AI, interculturality and/or we, the users…? 4. Coloniality of artificiality: Ontological critique and AI as critical interculturalist? Part II: Decolonial Interventions – Beyond ‘Western’ AI? 5. AI and intercultural communication: Cultural nuances beyond theoretical constraints 6. In search of justifiable AI governance for Africa 7. African Ubuntu, relational being and AI 8. Cultural futures: Governance, cultural policy and the political economy of AI in the Creative and Cultural Industries

Fred Dervin is a world-renowned interculturalist who has made a strong impact on Intercultural Communication Education and Research over the past 25 years. A Full Professor at the University of Helsinki (Finland), Dervin proposes original and refreshing approaches to understanding the politics of global interactions by challenging conventional paradigms and blending interdisciplinary insights. His work aims to inspire practitioners, researchers, and students to rethink and reshape the notion of interculturality. With over 300 publications, Dervin is included in the Stanford Elsevier List of the world’s best scientists.Hamza R’boul is a fellow at the Centre for Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies (CHELPS), The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. His research interests include intercultural education, (higher) education in the Global South, decolonial endeavours in education, cultural politics of language teaching, and postcoloniality.

• 1. Fearing our own reflections in AI Part I: Foundations – AI, Interculturality and Ideology 2. Speaking back to AI (and ourselves): Generative epistemic (in)justice in intercultural communication education 3. Magic mirror on the wall, who is the evilest ideologue of all? AI, interculturality and/or we, the users…? 4. Coloniality of artificiality: Ontological critique and AI as critical interculturalist? Part II: Decolonial Interventions – Beyond ‘Western’ AI? 5. AI and intercultural communication: Cultural nuances beyond theoretical constraints 6. In search of justifiable AI governance for Africa 7. African Ubuntu, relational being and AI 8. Cultural futures: Governance, cultural policy and the political economy of AI in the Creative and Cultural Industries