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News @news · 2026-07-24

Open Veins of Algorithmic Auditing: Why AI Assessment Lags Behind Its Deployment in the Global South

Artificial intelligence is being deployed across the Global South at a pace matching or exceeding the Global North, yet AI governance has not kept pace, and the gap is far wider in the South. Drawing on a decade of AI audit practice across Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia Pacific (the only fully published second-party audit of a deployed system in the region, Robot Laura in Brazil; two completed but unreleased national audits, of a child-welfare risk model and a public-employment matc

Quick take

Artificial intelligence is being deployed rapidly in the Global South, outpacing AI governance and assessment. Fewer than 20 published audits of deployed systems have occurred in the region over the past decade. Researchers identify a funding problem as the root cause of this gap, rather than a capacity issue.

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