From Digital to AI Divides: History Repeats

Twenty years ago, my doctoral advisor Dr. Carolyn Cartier highlighted the importance of studying the nuanced layers of the global digital divide, especially the disparities between the information have and have nots. This spectrum of access and opportunity was amplified two decades later at the 2025 Al Action Summit in Paris When UN Secretary-General António Guterres echoed the warning that Al power rests “in the hands of a few” and threatens to deepen rather than bridge global inequities.