Short dispatches from the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, 2026: the digital divide, AI governance, and the people doing the unglamorous work.

Ethical debt, a-ethical AI, and the persistent interlocutor: three terms from an AI ethics researcher that name risks most teams feel but can’t describe.

UN ambassadors from the Global South on building AI at home, and why cultural responsiveness worried the room more than data safety.

Day one at the AI for Good Global Summit: the digital divide, AI rules that hold up in practice, and what robots still can’t learn from ants.

Why AI adoption stalls without electricity, internet access and trained people, and why frontier AI has to answer to those far from the room.

Big tech partners bring the logos. Humanitarian workers do the grounding work. A mapping project in Ghana shows why that matters.