Position: AI Leaderboards Are Underserving the Global South: A Case Study from India
Abstract
arXiv:2608.18117v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This position paper argues that AI leaderboards are structurally ill-suited to serving the Global South because they lack independent governance, conflict-of-interest policies, and mechanisms for metric evolution. The barrier is not missing data; high-quality regional benchmarks already exist: IndicSUPERB, MILU, and LAHAJA for India; IrokoBench for Africa; AlGhafa for Arabic. The barrier is institutional design. Global leaderboards do not include t
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