Klaudia Jaźwińska, Aliya Bhatia, and Yanick Kemayou come together to answer: What happens when a small collection of AI companies start colonising the truth?

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This is REAL Resistance, a collection of conversations produced in collaboration with Real ML, featuring the experts and advocates who make up Real ML’s global network.

In this conversation, three guests from the network share all the ways in which AI is shaping our relationship with news, language, and learning:

• People are increasingly using AI for search and to get their news; but Klaudia Jaźwińska’s research finds that chatbots have a huge citation problem
• Many LLMs claim to be ‘multi-lingual’ — but also only tested in US English? Aliya Bhatia explains that porting outputs from English into all other languages in not gonna cut it
• Higher education in Africa is completely disconnected from local knowledge, which is why Yanick Kemayou founded Kabakoo: an alternative learning platform that leverages and preserves local knowledge with the use of technology, and without exploitation

As Yancik says in this episode, “openness without governance is extraction with extra steps”.

Further reading & resources:

• AI Search has a Citation Problem — Klaudia Jaźwińska & Aisvarya Chandrasekar
• Lost in Translation: Large Language Models in Non-English Content Analysis — Gabriel Nicholas, Aliya Bhatia
• More on Kabakoo Academies, founded by Yanick Kemayou
• The SPUR Coalition — a UK org seeking to create standards and infrastructure for AI companies and news publishers to do business
• The State and Fate of Linguistic Diversity and Inclusion in the NLP World — by Pratik Joshi et al, 2020
• The #BenderRule: On Naming the Languages We Study and Why It Matters — Emily Bender, 2019
• The silicon gaze: A typology of biases and inequality in LLMs through the lens of place — Francisco W. Kerche et al, 2026
• Bamako AI Festival

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