My mother’s buried story AI tools are built on Eurocentric datasets. For Brazil’s Afro-descendants — whose histories were already marginalised from literature,
AI tools are being developed with datasets that are heavily influenced by Eurocentric perspectives. This poses a significant risk of erasing the histories and experiences of marginalized communities, such as Afro-descendants in Brazil, whose stories are already underrepresented in mainstream literature and media. AI
IMPACT AI development risks perpetuating historical marginalization and erasure of non-Western narratives.