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Lessons From the Margins: Contextualizing, Reimagining, and Hacking Generative AI in the Global South

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: The impacts of Generative AI in regions of Africa, Asia, and Latin America -with their diverse historical and sociopolitical contexts-are often overshadowed by the hyped and universalizing promises of the technology. Global South regions are strategic sites within the global AI value chain grappling with issues of resource exploitation, digital labor outsourcing, and environmental impact. In seeking to overcome the dynamics of extraction, diverse counter-hegemonic responses are contributing to question, adapt and reimagine Gen AI technologies to service the public interest, fundamental rights, and cultural preservation. We draw lessons from how activists, practitioners and thinkers on the margins of AI development, actively assert their autonomy, inspiring a more equitable and culturally responsive digital landscape.

Source: Harvard Data Science Review

DOI: 10.1162/99608f92.30a2934f

Authors: Andrés Domínguez Hernández, Diana Mosquera, Francisco Gallegos

Institution: The Alan Turing Institute

Language: English

Topic: Ethics and Social Impacts of AI

Subfield: Safety Research

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4412481329

FWCI: 6.51

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