White Paper:
Is AI Degrading Culture or Can it Preserve it?
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – OCTOBER 2025
Advocacy group and guest contributors share their perspectives on AI’s effect on culture at a global level.
Sana Bagersh, Founder of the Global BrainTrust: “The connection between AI and cultural preservation is undeniable because while AI holds incredible potential to amplify human creativity, it also carries a serious risk due to the narrowing of our cultural horizons.
“Realistically speaking, the risk of cultural degradation has started to happen because of the limited datasets and biased frameworks. We are seeing how large language models (LLMs) are trained primarily on Western-centric and English-language data, creating a narrow lens through which global culture is interpreted.” LINK
Press Release:
Growing Concern Over Hard to Detect Fake
AI Content
SEATTLE, USA – SEPTEMBER 2025
Advocacy Group Issues Red Flag Over Proliferation of High-Risk AI Content
The rapid advancement in AI generated content makes it increasingly difficult for humans to identify fake information used to aid the proliferation of scams and cybercrime, asserts the Global Braintrust, a grassroots group formed to advocate for human interests in AI adoption.
The Global BrainTrust advocates for more accountability over deepfakes on social media platforms, the removal of harmful content targeting real people, as well as a global governance framework to enforce AI transparency standards.
AI-generated images and videos are being used to spread false information, manipulate public opinion, and perpetuate harmful stereotypes, warns Professor Ahmed Banafa, the Senior Technology Advisor at the Global BrainTrust. This is especially alarming because such content can also be disseminated faster than ever before through social media. LINK
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AI’s Explosive Energy Demand Raises Alarms
By Brie Alexander, Cultural Advisor to the African Diaspora at the Global BrainTrust
YAMOUSSOUKRA, IVORY COAST – AUGUST 2025
The cost of AI’s energy appetite is staggering, with a 2025 study by the Energy Justice Network indicating that 9 of the 10 counties most impacted by new AI data center projects are poor, predominantly Black, or rural communities already suffering from environmental burdens.
The series, focused on Pan African affairs, shares that training a large AI model can consume more electricity than 100 U.S. homes use in a year (International Energy Agency, 2024). Inference, the process of running AI models, requires even more as usage scales. LINK
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Global BrainTrust Sounds Alarm on AI’s Effect on Human Cognition
SEATTLE, USA – JULY 2025
New research from MIT has revealed the disturbing neurological and psychological effects on humans of unchecked AI usage, prompting the Global BrainTrust to issue a red flag calling for greater oversight over AI’s effect on human cognitive performance.
The new study demonstrates that generative AI tools like ChatGPT may be altering human cognition in fundamental ways, with MIT neuroscientists asserting that regular use of AI assistants alters memory retention and critical analysis skills.
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Global BrainTrust Proposes Patenting of ‘Human Souls’ as Protection Against AI Use
by Dr Fran apprich, Communication Advisor at The Global Braintrust
BERLIN, GERMANY – JUNE 2025
Global BrainTrust Advisor Dr Fran Apprich raised the need for the protection of the ‘essence of human identity or soul’ to stop AI using human DNA and unique identifiers, as part of its process for building its models.
“This is a strange topic and one we could not have foreseen a few years ago, but right now it is a legitimate and genuine concern,” said Apprich. “There must be a way for humans to patent themselves to stop AI from taking credit for something that is inherently human.” LINK
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The Global BrainTrust Raises Alarm Over AI-Driven Job Losses in Creative Industries, and Calls for Human-Centred Solutions
DUBAI, UAE – MAY 2025
The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) poses a significant threat to jobs in the creative industries, warns the Global BrainTrust, an advocacy group championing the ethical and human-centred adoption of AI. As AI-generated content proliferates, artists, writers, musicians, and other creatives face unprecedented challenges to their livelihoods, intellectual property rights, and the very essence of human creativity, it states. LINK
Press Release:
The Global BrainTrust 2025 Impact Report:
Highlighting Advocacy and Vision for AI’s Ethical Evolution
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – JANUARY 2025
The Global BrainTrust, a grassroots coalition advocating for ethical AI development and human-centric solutions, has unveiled its 2025 Impact Report which provides an in-depth look at the organization’s work, vision, and ongoing initiatives to ensure AI technologies are developed responsibly to benefit humanity.
The Impact Report’s 2024 identifies pressing challenges that demand urgent attention using communiques that flag the threats, from the growing proliferation of deepfakes technology which continues to sow misinformation and erode public trust, to AI-induced job losses, to algorithmic bias which disadvantages some communities over others. LINK
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A Deeper Dive into the Diversity Crisis in AI’s Global Transformation
by Brie Alexander, Cultural Advisor to the African Diaspora
at The Global Braintrust
YAMOUSSOUKRA, IVORY COAST – DECEMBER 2024
Diversity in the development and application of artificial intelligence (AI), diversity is not just desirable, it is a critical necessity that needs to be addressed at the highest levels of decision-making. LINK
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The Global BrainTrust Flags the Diversity Crisis in Silicon Valley’s Tech Leadership.
SEATTLE, USA – NOVEMBER 2024
Concerns over the scaling back of diversity programs by Silicon Valley tech giants such as Meta, which recently formed an all-white male advisory panel, has caused speculation that US election results would further dial back diversity priorities.
Sana Bagersh, Founder of the Global BrainTrust called for more inclusive representation in tech companies, in the face of cost-cutting measures and growing criticism of DEI initiatives by conservative voices, just a few years after they had gained traction in the tech industry. LINK
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The Global BrainTrust Calls for Regulation Over AI’s Uncontrolled Trajectory.
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA – OCTOBER 2024
The Global Braintrust urges increased oversight over AI to safeguard humanity’s interests, as artificial intelligence is evolving in ways that are both unpredictable and uncontrolled, said Sana Bagersh, Founder of The Global BrainTrust. LINK
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Global BrainTrust Flags AI Risks Posed to Humans Jobs of the Most Vulnerable.
DUBAI, UAE – AUGUST 2024
The Global BrainTrust, issues a stern warning about artificial intelligence’s risk to human jobs, along with a reminder that AI must serve all of humanity’s interests equally, and that proactive measures made to mitigate job losses, especially among those who are most vulnerable. LINK
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Global BrainTrust Flags the Risks Posed to Humans by “AI Hallucinations.
SEATTLE, USA – JULY 2024
The Global BrainTrust flags the immediate need to address AI hallucination risks now as they can potentially pose incalculable dangers to humans. LINK
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Global BrainTrust Coalition to Present the Human Perspective on AI Adoption
STANFORD, USA – JUNE 2024
Grassroots Global BrainTrust formed to advocate for humanity, with the aim of giving voice to underrepresented populations in the world. LINK