{
  "id": 980,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.16167v1",
  "title": "AI Pluralism and the Worlds It Misses",
  "summary": "AI pluralism is often framed as a problem of representing diverse values, preferences, users, or outputs. This paper argues that this framing is incomplete because AI systems also impose ontologies: they define what counts as an entity, relation, feature, harm, benefit, and valid form of evidence. We define ontological flattening as the conversion of situated, contested, and historically specific meanings into a restricted technical category, proxy, aggregation rule, or benchmark target that is ",
  "authors": "Rashid Mushkani",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": null,
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-06-15T03:30:48.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T14:14:54.535Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/980",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.16167v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}