Toward an indigenous way to see: In conversation with Humans in the Loop director Aranya Sahay

Toward an indigenous way to see: In conversation with Humans in the Loop director Aranya Sahay

In a key scene from Humans in the Loop, Nehma’s supervisor questions her labelling of a worm as a pest. When confronted, Nehma calmly explains that the worm only eats the rotten parts of the leaf, allowing the plant to survive. She reminds her supervisor that AI, like a child, learns from what it’s taught. The supervisor, however, dismisses her reasoning, insisting that if the client calls it a pest, she must label it as such. In this brief but …