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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
