K Gumbs

The Global AI Divide

No. of episodes

2

Latest episode

2026-09-20

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The Global AI Divide is a documentary podcast series that examines how artificial intelligence is being developed, adopted, and regulated across different continents—and what those divergences mean for the future of global power, justice, and knowledge production. Each episode focuses on a different country or region, moving beyond the familiar US–EU–China triad to center perspectives from the Global South and other non-Western contexts.

The series treats AI not as a neutral technical artifact but as a site of struggle over data, sovereignty, and epistemic authority. It draws on the concept of data colonialism—the idea that the extraction and operationalization of data about bodies, faces, and languages reproduces asymmetrical power relations even when framed as service delivery or protection—and on algorithmic bias as a problem that is not merely technical but structural, encoded in datasets that reflect historical hierarchies.

Each episode combines narrative storytelling, expert interviews, and on-the-ground reporting to answer a central question: Who gets to shape AI, and on whose terms?