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The Great AI divide

AIs often don’t recognise African faces, voices or languages, so they can’t be trusted to understand us or communicate with us.

02 December 2025

Samantha Perry

You can’t blink without running into AI these days. It’s taken over social media, to the detriment of those platforms, I suspect. Every tech and news title is talking about it. Businesses are trying to work out how to use it to best effect while also making sure that shadow AI doesn’t proliferate while they’re trying to get a policy together.

But is it really everywhere? Depending on where you sit in the world, AI is either the word on the street, a vague tech term you’ve heard used somewhere, or something you’ve never heard of at all.

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