By bbc.com
Publication Date: 2026-06-01 00:07:00
“Historically, as a region, we have been extracted at two levels. If you look at the AI value chain, many of our youth, including some who have studied computer science, remain in the data labeling functions at the bottom of the value chain, where the least value is created. In other ways, a lot of our data is extracted for free to train these systems. We want to make sure that we don’t fall back on similar models that we had during colonization.”
Leanna Byrne speaks with Kate Kallot, founder of Kenyan artificial intelligence company Amini, which is building AI infrastructure in Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America.
She warns that billions of people risk being excluded from the artificial intelligence systems that shape modern life because languages, cultures and knowledge from much of the world are underrepresented in the technology being developed today.
Kate argues that AI risks repeating old patterns of global inequality, with poorer countries providing valuable data while richer…
