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It's a survey on optimism, it's expected to skew towards early adopters. A startup founder in Bangalore is surely more enthusiastic than a data-labelling worker in Kenya, but both are the "Global South", just like many others whose labor, land, water and minerals are exploited.

One of the things the neo-Luddite Left really needs to hear a lot more is the Global South *loves* AI. So many people there see it as a an equalizer that makes them more able to compete in the global economy against those of us from wealthy countries.

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On the other hand: I have seen papers arguing against AI based on postcolonial theories that concolude: resist, reject, don't use AI, which quickly reads as paternalistic white-savior stuff.