Position: AI Leaderboards Are Underserving the Global South: A Case Study from India

arXiv cs.AIAugust 20, 2026en

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 these benchmarks, and no governance mechanism compels them to do so. Commercial pressure corrects leaderboard failures when paying customers in the Global North are affected. The Global South lacks equ

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