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AI Governance for the Global Majority: Understanding Opportunities and Challenges

Thu. May 9th, 2024
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Artificial intelligence (AI) will impact individuals, communities, and institutions worldwide in both unique and universal ways. While public and private sector actors have begun to build the foundations for achieving more secure and trustworthy AI, the voices shaping the AI governance agenda are primarily from the Global North. To govern AI in a way that reflects a global range of contexts, it is imperative to adopt a more inclusive lens in defining its harms and opportunities. Broadly accepted AI governance principles may struggle to translate into practice without a more explicit focus on how priorities and challenges prevalent in the Global Majority intersect with AI.  

Carnegie’s AI and the Global Majority project brings together scholars, practitioners, and entrepreneurs to elucidate gaps and opportunities in the current global AI governance narrative through a series of publications.   

Aubra Anthony, senior fellow at Carnegie’s Technology and International Affairs program, and Elina Noor, senior fellow at Carnegie’s Asia program, will moderate a conversation with Dr. Jake Okechukwu Effoduh, Toronto Metropolitan University; Dr. Rachel Gong and Dr. Jun–E Tan, Khazanah Research Institute; Dr. Ranjit Singh, Data and Society Research Institute; Dr. Chijioke Okorie and Dr. Vukosi Marivate, University of Pretoria; and Carolina Botero, Fundación Karisma.  

EconomyTechnologyNorth AmericaSouthern, Eastern, and Western AfricaSouth AsiaSoutheast Asia
event speakers

Aubra Anthony

Senior Fellow, Technology and International Affairs Program

Aubra Anthony is a senior fellow in the Technology and International Affairs Program at Carnegie, where she researches the human impacts of digital technology, specifically in emerging markets.

Elina Noor

Senior Fellow, Asia Program

Elina Noor is a senior fellow in the Asia Program at Carnegie where she focuses on developments in Southeast Asia, particularly the impact and implications of technology in reshaping power dynamics, governance, and nation-building in the region.

Jake Okechukwu Effoduh

Jake Okechukwu Effoduh is an assistant professor at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law of Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. He is a TWAIL scholar with a research focus on the impact of artificial intelligence on international law and human rights praxis.

Rachel Gong

Rachel Gong is a deputy director of research at Khazanah Research Institute. She leads the institute’s digital policy research, covering digital inclusion, the digital economy, and digital governance.

Jun-E Tan

Jun-E Tan is a senior research associate at Khazanah Research Institute. Her current research interests include digital rights and AI governance in the contexts of Southeast Asia and Malaysia.

Ranjit Singh

Ranjit Singh is a senior researcher at the Data & Society Research Institute. His research sits at the intersection of data infrastructures, majority world scholarship, and public policy for data-driven systems, and examines the everyday experiences of people subject to data-driven practices.

Chijioke Okorie

Chijioke Okorie is the principal investigator and leader of Data Science Law Lab, a research group at the University of Pretoria that deploys research in law and produces evidence and policy advice to support the growth of data science research across Africa. Chijioke is an Africa correspondent at The IPKat blog, associate editor of South African Intellectual Property Law Journal, and the author of several articles on intellectual property and information justice issues in Africa.

Vukosi Marivate

Vukosi Marivate is an associate professor at the University of Pretoria, where he also holds the prestigious ABSA UP Chair of Data Science. His expertise lies in the fields of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), with a particular focus on natural language processing (NLP) and the development of solutions for local or low-resource languages. Co-Founder of Lelapa AI, Maskahane Research Foundation and the Deep Learning Indaba.

Carolina Botero

Carolina Botero is a civil society advocate for the right to access knowledge. She is also a lawyer who works on issues where technology and human rights meet. She is the former CEO of Fundación Karisma in Colombia. She holds a master’s degree in international law and cooperation from Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium and a master’s degree in business and contract law from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain.