Language Resource Center Speaker Series - Aditya Vashistha - AI Safety for the Global Majority

"AI Safety for the Global Majority" Aditya Vashistha Assistant Professor of Information Science and Director of the Cornell Global AI Initiative, Cornell University AI safety is often framed around alignment failures, existential risk, or misuse by powerful actors. Yet for much of the world, the risks of AI are far more immediate: misrepresentation, exclusion, stereotyping, and the erosion of dignity. These harms disproportionately affect communities that are already marginalized — including people with disabilities and those in non-Western cultural contexts. In this talk, I argue that current