Building AI in and for the Global South

Projects examining how we can building more globally responsive AI pipelines. Existing and upcoming research projects examine novel evaluation methods for human feedback, cultural impact of generative AI, multi-perspectivity in interface design and design visions emerging from qualitative community-centered studies of experiences with AI in the Global South

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• [upcoming] Re-imagining GenAI Futures with Artists in the Global South
• [upcoming] Can AI Represent Socio-Cultural Worlds?
• Global AI Cultures | ICLR 2024 Workshop [link]
• AI’s Regimes of Representation: A Community-centered Study of Text-to-Image Models in South Asia. (FAccT ’23) [link]
• Cultural Incongruencies in Artificial Intelligence [link]
• Cultures in AI/AI in Culture | A NeurIPS 2022 Workshop [link]

Impact of Culturally Inappropriate Technologies in the Global South

Prior research on how communities in the global south experience technological failures from inappropriate monocultural algorithmic design exported to non-western countries. Specific focus on on ground digital app platform workers in South East Asia

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• ‘Disruption’ Is a Two-Way Street, WIRED
• When Databases Get to Define Family, WIRED
• Uber and Lyft: woo drivers with stable pay, not short-term honeypots Guardian
• Global South startups can do better than Silicon Valley Rest of World
• Delivery Drivers Are Using Grey Market Apps to Make Their Jobs Suck Less Vice
• Delivery Platform Algorithms Don’t Work Without Drivers’ Deep Local Knowledge Slate

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• Seeing like a driver: How workers repair, resist, and reinforce the platform’s algorithmic visions Big Data and Society
• What’s in a Network: Infrastructures of Mutual Aid for Digital Platform Workers during COVID-19 CSCW ’21 [Honorable Mention]
• Platform Workers as Infrastructures of Global Technologies ACM Interactions
• “This Seems to Work”: Designing Technological Systems with The Algorithmic Imaginations of Those Who Labor CHI ’21 w/ Lindsey Cameron , Angele Christin , Michael Ann DeVito , Tawanna R. Dillahunt , Madeleine Elish , Mary Gray , Noopur Raval , Melissa Valentine , Elizabeth Anne Watkins
• Algorithmized but not Atomized? How Digital Platforms Engender New Forms of Worker Solidarity in Jakarta Proceedings of the 2020 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (acceptance rate: 16%)
• Uber and Lyft: woo drivers with stable pay, not short-term honeypots Guardian
• Global South startups can do better than Silicon Valley Rest of World
• Delivery Drivers Are Using Grey Market Apps to Make Their Jobs Suck Less Vice
• Delivery Platform Algorithms Don’t Work Without Drivers’ Deep Local Knowledge Slate