African Languages AI Safety Readiness Report
With the widespread adoption of large language models (LLMs) across languages and domains, AI safety has emerged as a critical global concern. However, due to resource constraints, research and development efforts tend to prioritize a limited number of high-resource languages, leaving many others, especially those spoken in Africa, underrepresented. While existing research on language "resource-ness" has largely examined whether sufficient resources are available to develop language technologies, the question of whether languages are adequately represented in AI safety research has received attention only more recently. This report examines the readiness of African languages for inclusion...
| Authors | Israel Abebe Azime, Jesujoba O. Alabi, Tajuddeen Gwadabe et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 19 October 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 19 October 2026 |
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