The digital divide in artificial intelligence adoption between the Global North and Global South is widening, Microsoft’s chief responsible AI officer told Euronews Next.
“We cannot let the digital divide become an even greater AI divide,” warned Natasha Crampton, who is also a former member of the UN's High-Level Advisory Body on AI.
Speaking on the sidelines of last week’s UN AI for Good Summit in Geneva, she laid out a vision for bridging the gap.
Calls for AI sovereignty have swept the floors of tech conferences, particularly since the Trump administration forced Anthropic to exclude non-US citizens from using its most powerful AI models, Mythos and Fable, a month ago. The ban has since been partially reversed.
But for Crampton, AI sovereignty does not merely mean “local solutions in opposition to globally provided technologies”.
