The AI Impact Summit in India is just a couple of days away and we are ready to drown in vague terms that kinda describe AI, and definitely obscure power. Let’s talk about how to reframe those terms…

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We’ve partnered with the AI Now Institute and Aapti Institute to conduct twelve interviews based around the biggest and baddest terms we feel have been co-opted by global summits such as this one. This week we have Karen Hao discussing what it means to be ‘data rich’; Rafael Grohmann on the word ‘sovereignty’ and how it has a hundred definitions; Joan Kinyua on ‘human capital’, a key part of any AI development supply chain; and Chenai Chair, who will discuss ‘linguistic diversity’ — what it is, and what it isn’t.

These are just the best parts of the interviews — if you want to go deep and see each of these interviews in full, head to our Youtube channel now.

Further reading & resources:

• More about Rafael Grohmann — Assistant Professor of Media Studies with focus on Critical Platform and Data Studies at the University of Toronto
• More about Karen Hao — investigative journalist and author of Empire of AI
• More about Chenai Chair — director of the Masakhane African Languages Hub
• More about Joan Kinyua — president of the Data Labellers Association
• More on the Due Diligence Act
• More about the amendment to the Business Laws Act 2024
• What does the notion of “sovereignty” mean when referring to the digital? — Stephane Couture and Sophie Toupin
• Buy The Oracle for Transfeminist Technologies by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Joana Varon, and Clara Juliano
• Watch this week’s interviews in full on Youtube (link to playlist of interviews)

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