#1. If AI can’t see you, do you exist?

“If AI can’t see you, do you exist?”

It sounds like a riddle, but for millions of people across Africa and the Global Majority, it’s an everyday reality. Entire communities are absent from the data that trains the world’s most powerful language models.

Their dialects aren't recognised.
Their accents are misunderstood.
Their cultures go unreferenced.

Are the tools we call “intelligent” are built for all of humanity — or just a narrow slice of it?