Beyond the algorithm: how to report on generative AI outside the West
Sat 12 April 2025
16:00 - 16:25
Free
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Narratives about gen AI are largely shaped by Western perspectives while the impact of the tech across the world mostly revolves around the basic local issues — health, education, and the economy. So is there sufficient local expertise to evaluate AI technologies critically, and how does the influence of Western-led reporting on AI impact storytelling and journalism in the rest of the world?
This conversation will discuss the scope of reporting on gen AI in India and other non-Western countries, and the challenges of representing local needs and local values while addressing biases in gen AI tools that are trained predominantly on Western datasets.
A conversation between Anup Kaphle (editor-in-chief Rest of World) and Nilesh Christopher (Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and award-winning tech reporter from India).
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Nilesh Christopher
Nilesh Christopher is a journalist working at the intersection of technology, business and culture. His words have appeared in WIRED, The Atlantic, the BBC, Vice, Rest of World, South China Morning Post, The Economic Times and others. He is a Harvard Nieman fellow 2025, based in Cambridge, researching on AI-generated content and how U.S. newsrooms combat deepfakes in politics. Before that, he worked as the South Asia correspondent for Rest of World, a non-profit tech publication focused on covering the impact of technology outside the west. His coverage spanned India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, where he reported on AI’s societal impact, e-commerce, iPhone manufacturing, electric vehicles, and the global influence of Chinese tech. Prior to that, he worked as a tech correspondent for The Economic Times, India’s largest business daily. His honors include a jury special mention at the One World Media’s New Voice Award for his investigative stories exploring AI’s impact on politics, labor, and employment in South Asia. In 2023, the feature he co-wrote on Foxconn’s struggles in producing iPhones in India won the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing Best in Business Award and received an honorable mention at the Society of Publishers in Asia 2024 award for excellence in technology reporting. He also won a South Asia Journalists Association award in 2023 for his reporting on how a YouTube channel transformed a remote village in Bangladesh. That same year, he was shortlisted for the True Story Award for his feature on a Sri Lankan fact checking group fighting state-backed misinformation. In 2022, he was part of the team that won the SOPA award for excellence in technology reporting for The Global Gig Workers project. Nilesh holds a post graduate diploma from the Asia College of Journalism in India, specializing in business and economics journalism. He completed a bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering.
Anup Kaphle
Anup Kaphle is the editor-in-chief at Rest of World, an international publication that challenges expectations about whose experience with technology matters. Since its launch in 2020, Rest of World has published over 1,000 stories, primarily written by local correspondents, from more than 100 countries. Prior to joining Rest of World, Anup was the editor-in-chief of the Kathmandu Post in Nepal, where he managed the country's largest English-language newsroom. Before that, Kaphle spent a decade in U.S. newsrooms, including six years at The Washington Post, where he worked on the foreign desk as the digital editor. He ran international news coverage at BuzzFeed News as the deputy foreign editor and led the editorial team at Roads & Kingdoms, an award-winning digital media producing stories at the intersection of food and international reporting.