Mennatullah Hendawy critically examines how AI systems often perpetuate societal inequities by prioritising majority perspectives, marginalising underrepresented groups. Drawing from examples like predictive policing and agricultural tools in the Global South, she underscores the importance of considering the positionality of AI creators.
Introduction Globally, there are now over 800 AI policy initiatives, from the governments of at least 60 countries, with most being introduced after 2016. The United Kingdom (UK) is at the forefront of AI governance efforts, at least quantitatively, being second only to the United States (US) in terms of the number of national-level AI policies released (OECD.AI, 2021) and ranking top for the number of mentions of AI in legislative documents between 2016 and 2021 (Zhang et al., 2022). According to the OECD, the US has released 55 documents, the UK 53, the EU 59, and China 22. These figures do not evidence the UK producing better outcomes than other countries that have published fewer …