When AI Can’t Understand Your Language, Democracy Breaks Down | TechPolicy.Press Language equity in AI is not a niche fairness issue but rather a growing democratic fault line, Sofia Olofsson writes.

“What if artificial intelligence looks at your language — and sees nothing?”

Perfect framing for the thousands of missing languages in AI today

#NLProc #NLP #NoLanguageLeftBehind

www.techpolicy.press/when-ai-cant...

How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?

Huge implications for low resource and indigenous languages.

#NLP #Linguistics #nolanguageleftbehind

www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...

SyntaxFest 2025 | Ljubljana, Slovenia

The team are heading to Slovenia on Monday to attend the biannual #syntaxfest

DM to meet and discuss #LSTM architectures and the application of the CoNLL-U standard to #lowresourcelanguages and #indigenouslanguage

#nolanguageleftbehind

syntaxfest.github.io/syntaxfest25/

💡 That’s why we created SEA-VL, an open-source initiative designed to bridge the resource gap and provide AI models with more accurate, culturally relevant data from SEA. But we couldn’t have done it alone!

#NoLanguageLeftBehind #SoutheastAsia

Thank you for being part of our journey to digitize African languages and preserve our cultural heritage.

See you next year! 🥳

#happyholidays #equalyzai #nolanguageleftbehind #seeyouin2025