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The Annual AI Governance Report 2025: Steering the Future of AI

Linguistic divides are also stark. The overwhelming majority of large language models are
trained primarily in English and a handful of other global languages. Indigenous languages
and dialects remain largely invisible in the AI ecosystem. Participants from Africa and Latin
America warned that unless deliberate steps are taken, AI could further marginalize already Context Chapter 1: Global
underrepresented cultures.

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• “90% of the data is in one language ... We need an algorithm and a model
that represents all of us.” (H.E. Eng. Abdullah Amer Alswaha, Minister of
Communications & Information Technology, Saudi Arabia)

Dive deeper in the Whitepaper “Themes and Trends in AI Governance”:

• 5.1 Global Compute Distribution

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