*Transnational AI and Corporate Imperialism*
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/Chinmayi Arun/
*Introduction*
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When I first had coffee with Facebook’s head of public policy in India,
she was using a shared workspace. Before joining Facebook, she had led
the policy practice of one of India’s most powerful law firms and was on
friendly terms with judges, ministers, and other influential people. It
was surprising to find her in a small office in a shared workspace, with
just one administrative assistant for support. In a couple of years, she
moved to a suite with a beautiful view in one of Delhi’s finest luxury
hotels, acquired an expanding team of seasoned lawyers and policy
professionals. Within five years, the public policy team had grown to be
so large that it had its own plush office in the heart of Delhi. This
expansion of influence within Delhi mirrored the expansion of Meta’s
(previously Facebook) influence in India. If it was difficult to be in
an Indian city without relying heavily on Big Tech’s products, it was
impossible to work on technology policy in Delhi without being swept
into currents of change created by Big Tech.^1
People across the world are grappling with a few global technology
companies ’ domination of their public spheres and increasingly of other
spheres of social, economic, and political engagement. In her essay on
the “algorithmic colonization of Africa,” Abeba Birhane pointed out that
most of Africa’s digital infrastructure is owned and controlled by major
Western technology companies, and she further questioned how relevant
artificial intelligence (AI) tools from the West are in other contexts.^2
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