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Severity6/10

Linguistic Extinction

Systematic exclusion of languages with scarce digital resources from AI benefits, accelerating the loss of linguistic diversity and extinction of minority languages.

Periodic recordSocietyarXiv2024

Hansi Hettiarachchi, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Paul Rayson, Ruslan Mitkov, Mohamed Gaber, Damith Premasiri, Fiona Anting Tan, Lasitha Uyangodage

Mitigation Strategy

Digital preservation initiatives for endangered languages, creation of datasets for low-resource languages, and development of inclusive multilingual models.

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30

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Risk ID

zn-30

Severity

6/10

Severity Level

30
Society
zn-30
Lg

Language

Linguistic Extinction

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Linguistic Extinction

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Severity Level6/10

Definition

Systematic exclusion of languages with scarce digital resources from AI benefits, accelerating the loss of linguistic diversity and extinction of minority languages.

Mitigation Strategy

Digital preservation initiatives for endangered languages, creation of datasets for low-resource languages, and development of inclusive multilingual models.

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