OPINION article Front. Artif. Intell. Sec. Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence AI Without Representation Is Just Inequity at Scale: On the Exportation of Unrepresentative Artificial Intelligence Models to the Global South - CACésar Abelardo Tinco Aliaga 1 - VGVasco Gerardo Hinostroza Fuentes 2 - HAHezerul Abdul Karim 3 - NANouar AlDahoul 4 - MJMyles Joshua Toledo Tan 5,6,7,8 - 1. Department of Electrical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Lima, Peru - 2. Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States - 3. Centre for Image and Vision Computing, Centre of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Artificial Intelligence and Engineering, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia - 4. Department of Computer Science, Division of Science, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - 5. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States - 6. Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health and Health Professions and College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States - 7. Biology Program, College of Arts and Sciences, University of St. La Salle, Bacolod, Philippines - 8. Department of Natural Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, University of St. La Salle, Bacolod, Philippines Select one of your emails You have multiple emails registered with Frontiers: Notify me on publication Please enter your email address: If you already have an account, please login You don't have a Frontiers account ? You can register here Abstract A common assumption in discussions of artificial intelligence (AI) is that increasing demographic representation in training data is sufficient to mitigate bias. Under this view, failures in facial recognition, clinical classification, and language generation are treated primarily as problems of coverage that can be