techpolicy.pressArticleTechnology & Ethics
Ramsha Jahangir and Justin Hendrix collect how governments outside the Western AI powers and China approached AI at the UN General Assembly High-Level Week — calling for a greater role in shaping AI rules, expanded access to AI capacity, and safety efforts that do not deepen technological divides. Pakistan, for example, backed calls to pace frontier AI while warning that "pacing must not become a new form of gatekeeping."
#ai-governance#united-nations#global-south
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theguardian.comArticleTechnology & Ethics
Reporting on a community campaign against a data center's water and energy use during a drought.
Why I recommend it: The clearest single story on what a data center costs the place it lands in.
#ai#ai ethics#data-centers
theguardian.comAdded Sep 16, 20260 opens 
lesan.aiOrganizationTechnology & Ethics
A translation project built for Ethiopian and other underserved languages by researchers from those language communities.
Why I recommend it: What language AI looks like when the people who speak the language build it.
#africa#ai#ai ethics
lesan.aiAdded Sep 16, 20260 opens 
decolonize.digitalWebsiteTechnology & Ethics
A research and publishing project on digital colonialism — who owns infrastructure, data and platforms, and who is extracted from.
Why I recommend it: Shifts the ethics conversation from bias in models to ownership of infrastructure.
#ai#ai ethics#data
decolonize.digitalAdded Sep 16, 20260 opens 
assess.technologyOrganizationTechnology & Ethics
A regional platform for assessing new technologies from the perspective of African communities and policymakers.
Why I recommend it: Technology assessment led from the region rather than imported into it.
#africa#ai#ai ethics
assess.technologyAdded Sep 16, 20260 opens 
opanoptico.com.brPublisherTechnology & Ethics
Brazilian coverage and analysis of surveillance, policing technology and digital rights in Latin America.
Why I recommend it: Most AI ethics reading is US- and Europe-centric — this is not.
#ai#ai ethics#brazil
opanoptico.com.brAdded Sep 16, 20260 opens techpolicy.press ArticleTechnology & Ethics
Analysis based on interviews with 56 experts across 24 countries on how AI language models are used differently in the Global South and the human rights risks that follow.
Why I recommend it: A rare look at AI harms and benefits outside the US and Europe.
#ai#ai ethics#ai-ethics
techpolicy.pressAdded Sep 13, 20260 opens 