Version 1.0 — Published May 2026
What we believe. Why we exist.
This document states what AI for Good Malaysia believes and why. It will be updated as the evidence changes.
AI's benefits are concentrating. This is the expected outcome of building AI to maximize returns for shareholders.
Five companies control 71% of the world's AI compute, up from 63% eighteen months earlier. US private AI investment reached $285.9 billion in 2025. The Global South received a rounding error.
Epoch AI 2025; Stanford HAI 2026 AI Index
The communities that will be most transformed by AI are the least represented in building it.
93% of the world's languages are absent from AI training data. Facial recognition systems misidentify dark-skinned faces 10 to 100 times more often than light-skinned ones. The Foundation Model Transparency Index dropped from 58 to 40 in a single year.
Nature 2025; MIT Sloan; Stanford HAI 2026
Open-source AI built by volunteer communities is one of the few mechanisms that consistently produces tools for people markets ignore.
Hugging Face grew from 160,000 to 1.57 million generative AI model repositories in two years. 46% of Fortune 500 leaders prefer open models. The AI Adoption by Country API is MIT-licensed, tracks 16 countries, and is used by researchers for free.
Mozilla Foundation 2024; our own data
AI literacy is not a luxury. AI systems already make decisions about jobs, loans, content, and public services. Communities that cannot read those decisions are subject to them.
5M+ views of AI literacy content produced by this community, mostly in English and Bahasa Malaysia — languages underrepresented in AI safety discourse.
The window to build public-interest AI infrastructure is closing. The compute concentration ratio moved from 63% to 71% in eighteen months. The trend is not slowing.
The OECD and the UN both concluded in 2024 that AI must be governed as public commons. The policy consensus exists. The implementation does not. Communities like this one are part of filling that gap.
OECD.AI 2025; UN Governing AI for Humanity 2024