The AI Equity Lab

The AI Equity Lab is housed in the Center for Technology Innovation (CTI) at Brookings and is focused on advancing inclusive, ethical, nondiscriminatory, and democratized artificial intelligence (AI) models and systems throughout the United States and the Global South, including the African Union, India, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America. To learn more, visit the About page.

Governance Studies

Past Event

September 15

2026

Artificial Intelligence Can communities mitigate their rising concerns about data centers?

The Brookings Institution, Washington D.C.

Tuesday, 10:00 am - 11:30 am EDT

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Artificial Intelligence Avoiding the next digital divide: Defining digital sovereignty for Tribal Nations in the AI age

Morgan Gray, Kennedy Satterfield, Traci Morris, Nicol Turner Lee

February 17, 2026

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Technology Policy & Regulation Addressing overlooked AI harms beyond the TAKE IT DOWN Act

Brooke Tanner, Josie Stewart, Nicol Turner Lee

December 11, 2025

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Latin America & the Caribbean Latam-GPT and the search for AI sovereignty

Eduardo Levy Yeyati

November 25, 2025

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AI Safety and the Global Majority

To globalize perspectives on AI safety, the “AI safety and the global majority” series convenes experts from the Global Majority to counter Western-centric assumptions in AI safety and examine strategies to broaden inclusion in these critical conversations.

TechTank Podcast: Episodes on AI equity

This collection shares podcast episodes relating to AI equity from The TechTank Podcast, a biweekly podcast from the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings, explores today’s most consequential technology issues.

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