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- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation launched a 60-member coalition with companies like Google and Anthropic to improve AI support for underrepresented languages.
- The initiative aims to make AI tools more culturally and linguistically diverse to support health, education, and agricultural development in poorer nations.
- The foundation also committed $1 billion toward AI-focused projects to reduce global inequality.
- This work seeks to address biases in AI models that currently struggle with non-English dialects and regional medical or cultural terminology.
What to watch next
- Development of the coalition's governance structure
- Tracking of signatory commitments by the secretariat
- The efficacy of the $1 billion investment in AI-focused health and agricultural projects
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Bill Gates
foundation's chair
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“We failed to build in the right human values and ways of keeping our moral code controlling what these AIs do”
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…use of AI” together could accelerate the fight against inequality, urging the world's richest countries to expand international aid and apply artificial intelligence toward what he considers “lifesaving innovations.” “ We failed to build in the right human values and ways of keeping our moral code controlling what these AIs do ,” Gates, the foundation's chair, said during a Monday conversation with political commentator Van Jones at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York. The Gates Foundation's annual event, usually hosted the week of the United…
Mark Suzman
Gates Foundation CEO
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“Even if AI was frozen right now — which I don't expect and I am not calling for — we would want to be building these language sets and making them usable with the tools that we have available right now”
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…models. Governments must regulate the impacts on cybersecurity or children's development, he said, while they extend AI's humanitarian applications to poor communities currently “shut out” from the technology. “ Even if AI was frozen right now — which I don't expect and I am not calling for — we would want to be building these language sets and making them usable with the tools that we have available right now ,” Suzman told The Associated Press. The collaboration follows last week's Goalkeepers report, where the foundation committed $1 billion toward AI-focused efforts to improve health outcomes, upgrade educational tools…
E.M. Lewis-Jong
Mozilla Data Collective CEO
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“The internet is not a representative space”
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…not-for-profit Mozilla.org. The data-sharing platform seeks to help communities upload cultural and linguistic data sets on their own terms rather than have that data taken from the web without their explicit consent. “ The internet is not a representative space ,” she said. “Why would you think that you were going to get a culturally diverse and representative system out of something that was predominantly trained on Reddit?” Details such as the coalition's governance are…
Elizabeth Kelly
head of beneficial deployments at Anthropic
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“We're acutely aware that we can't achieve any of the benefits we want to see in terms of improving patient outcomes or improving literacy and numeracy for students across the globe unless we actually get this language piece right”
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…developments and bolster its chatbot's data set of local crops. Elizabeth Kelly, the head of beneficial deployments at Anthropic, acknowledged the company's products “lag in many African languages in particular." “ We're acutely aware that we can't achieve any of the benefits we want to see in terms of improving patient outcomes or improving literacy and numeracy for students across the globe unless we actually get this language piece right ," she told AP. Published on September 22, 2026…
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Named United States · India · Malawi · United Nations · Anthropic · Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation · Bill Gates · Elizabeth Kelly · E.M. Lewis-Jong · Google · James Manyika · Mark Suzman · Mozilla Data Collective · OpenAI Foundation · Van Jones
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