#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.

And in a world increasingly shaped by AI — from job applications to digital services, education to healthcare — invisibility doesn’t just mean being overlooked. It means being left out of the future altogether.

This isn't a question of representation for representation's sake.

It's a matter of recognition.
Of dignity.
Of whether the tools we call “intelligent” are truly built for all of humanity — or just a narrow slice of it.