KATE KALLOT
Artificial intelligence is reshaping global power dynamics, and those of us in the Global South – from Africa and the Caribbean to Southeast Asia and South America – must seize this moment to advance a community-driven approach to the ascending technology.
Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) stand at a crossroads with AI: it could become a mechanism for asserting our sovereignty and delivering inclusive prosperity, or the latest tool of colonization and exploitation. For centuries, our labor, natural resources, and knowledge systems have been used to fuel progress in the Global North. The development and deployment of AI could follow this pattern, leaving LMICs without a stake in the technologies that will underpin our collective prosperity and ability to thrive.
But LMICs have an opportunity to avert this outcome. We already have the talent, resources, and vision to ensure that AI meets our needs. With increased coordination, investment in distributed computing, and grassroots innovation, we can establish a fairer technological order that creates value for Global South communities, strengthens their agency, and solves the most pressing challenges facing the planet.
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