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Kate Kallot, AI founder: A global digital divide?

Kate Kallot, AI founder: A global digital divide?

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Artificial intelligence entrepreneur Kate Kallot on ensuring the Global South keeps pace

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“Historically, as a region, we’ve been extracted at two levels.
If you look at the AI value chain, a lot of our youth, some who
have studied computer science, are left at data labelling roles
at the bottom of the value chain, where the least value is
created. In a different way, a lot of our data is being extracted
for free to train those systems. We want to make sure we don’t go
into similar models that we had during colonisation.” Leanna
Byrne speaks to Kate Kallot, founder of the Kenyan artificial
intelligence company Amini, which is building AI infrastructure
across Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America.

She warns that billions of people risk being left out of the
artificial intelligence systems shaping modern life, with
languages, cultures and knowledge from large parts of the world
underrepresented in the technology being built today.

Kate argues that AI risks repeating old patterns of global
inequality, with poorer countries supplying valuable data while
richer nations reap the rewards.

She explains why the Global South should help shape the future of
AI, rather than simply supply the data behind it.

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(Image: Kate Kallot. Credit: Getty)