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  "description": "Eddy Smith's essay on AI and St. Vincent hits close to home, literally. As someone born there, with family roots in Bequia, who works in cybersecurity and has spent two decades arguing for the open web, I recognise every word of it.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-09T16:50:22.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "AI and Caribbean history",
    "AI Governance",
    "AI Literacy",
    "Algorithmic Bias",
    "Artificial Intelligence",
    "Caribbean Technology",
    "CARICOM",
    "Data Sovereignty"
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  "textContent": "Eddy Smith’s When the Machine Forgets St. Vincent lands differently when the place being forgotten is somewhere you are from. Smith’s argument is simple and hard to shake: AI systems reflect what has been fed into them. If your history was never digitised, never indexed, never deemed worth preserving, you are not misrepresented. You are absent. The algorithm does not lie about you. It does not know you exist. I was born in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. My family’s roots run deep in Bequia. I have also lived in Antigua, Barbados, and St. Lucia. The Caribbean is not an abstraction for me. And I work in cybersecurity, where data sovereignty is not a policy talking point — it is the difference between a society that governs itself and one that rents its governance from whoever controls the infrastructure. Smith draws the colonial parallel without flinching. The mechanism has changed. The geometry has not. European powers once took the authority to name and describe Caribbean history. Silicon Valley platforms do the same today — not through malice, but through indifference. That indifference is harder to fight than hostility. The IndieWeb community I am part of has been making a quieter version of this argument for years. Own your data. Publish on your own domain. Do not outsource your digital presence to platforms that have no stake in your continuity. That principle scales from individuals to nations. Smith’s call to action is concrete: digitise the national memory, build AI literacy as a civic skill, demand accountability in any AI system making decisions about Vincentians. None of that is radical. All of it is urgent.",
  "title": "What Happens When The Machine Has Never Heard of You?",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-09T05:25:15.000Z"
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