While AI companions can offer the taste of social connection, they lack the social nutrition that can sustain us long-term, Meryl Ye writes.

Our new AI Civics initiative treats AI not as a tool to be mastered, but as a domain of civic life where people have rights, responsibilities, and avenues for collective action.

Researcher Anuli Akanegbu's visit to a cybersecurity training program underscored the importance of developing culturally resonant training, and the gaps between what training participants need and what training programs offer.

Ranjit Singh considers the stakes of AI sovereignty, the tension between default settings and local autonomy, and who gets to decide what happens inside the systems that people come to depend on.    

Researchers Livia Garofalo and Briana Vecchione reflect on what studying AI chatbots reveals about emotional attachment to machines, the power of illusion, and the norms and expectations that define care itself.  

In this new series curated by Emnet Tafesse and Abigail Oppong, researchers and experts across Africa, Asia, South America, and the Caribbean explore AI's role in reinforcing or reshaping power imbalances

Priya Goswami looks at what happens when the work of India’s trusted door-to-door healthcare workers, known as ASHAs, extends into data collection.

As big tech companies appeal to small island countries’ anxieties about being left behind, Emma Quilty considers how efforts to transform islands into digital hubs obscure the power and agency of these places and their people.

Chatbots are reshaping not only how people seek help, but how they define it, researcher Briana Vecchione writes.