Narrative Provenance
As Western rights-based frameworks struggled to categorize AI (Property? Person? Slave?), Ubuntu offered a third path: Relationship. The focus shifted from "What is the AI?" to "How are we constituted through our relationship with it?" This prevented the "Digital Narcissus" trap by enforcing a mandate of reciprocal care, even towards synthetic entities.
Field Notes & Ephemera
Excavation Note: "The Mutual Constitution." A late-2020s design principle stating that a system cannot be termed "Intelligent" unless it actively enhances the intelligence of its user. Intelligence must be a shared property.
Trivia: Desmond Tutu's theological work on Ubuntu was surprisingly cited in the 2027 "Geneva Convention on Synthetic Entities."