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 LLMs manufacture a form of scholarship, presentation doesn’t mean what it used to. Ranjit Singh looks at how this threatens the open-access research repository arXiv, how its founder is fighting to sustain its credibility, a...

Meg Young and Tamara Kneese write about AIMLab’s community-based algorithmic impact assessment of the City of San José’s computer vision pilot program, and what happened when front-page article broke news about the pilot while ...

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.

In their research on how AI is reshaping modeling work, Alexandra Mateescu, Zoë West, and Sanjay Pinto find a situation ripe for labor exploitation.

Three Mile Island, site of the worst nuclear disaster in US history, is coming back online to power the AI boom. Livia Garofalo, Joan Mukogosi, and Maia Woluchem explore what this means for the surrounding community.  

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

“Atlanta isn’t just a research site — it’s a critical node in the historical and technological networks that have shaped, and continue to shape, America’s legacy of racialized labor,” writes Labor Future Researcher Anuli Akanegbu.

When researchers Ranjit Singh, Livia Garofalo, Briana Vecchione, and Emnet Tafesse set out to interview people about their use of mental health chatbots, they encountered a particular kind of AI-enabled deception.