- Source
- Big Data & Society
- Published
- 14 Oct 2026
- Authors
- Inti Josue Cachipuendo-Contero, Justin Yeager
Excerpt from source
Artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly helps communities make decisions related to healthcare, agriculture, education, and climate adaptation, yet most AI systems are built for people in connected, urban settings who speak dominant languages such as English. Indigenous and rural communities are often left out of the data, the model design, and the subsequent decisions that follow: a problem AI has not created, but has intensified. Using the Andes of Ecuador as a case in point, this commentary argues that this is a cyclical problem that is older than AI: where outside actors introduce a technology and decide how it will work without considering diverse cultures of people, often rural or…
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