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The Welsh language, its Culture, and Artificial Intelligence – Issue 5

by Gareth Watkins | Oct 19, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence

Sovereignty AI Sovereignty can be defined, simply, as the need for nations to secure their own AI ecosystems [1]. According to Singh and Sengupta: “With artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly becoming the foundation for economic, military, and civic life, many...

The Welsh language, its Culture, and Artificial Intelligence – Issue 4

by Gareth Watkins | Jun 30, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence

Communities Taking Control At the end of the last blog we highlighted the importance of trainining AI on data that faithfully reflects different linguistic and cultural communities in order to ensure that AI models ar inclusive. As we have already discussed in this...

The Welsh language, its Culture, and Artificial Intelligence – Issue 3

by Gareth Watkins | Jun 9, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence

The Doom Spiral! In issue 1 of this series, we saw that the Welsh language is short of quality data – and that the Token Crisis threatens smaller languages more than others. But what would happen if the quality of the sparse data that is being created started to...

The Welsh language, its Culture, and Artificial Intelligence – Issue 2

by Gareth Watkins | May 26, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence

Looking beyond Wales Welcome back to the long awaited second part in our blog series which sets out to underline the importance of respecting culture in the context of Artificial Intelligence, or AI. If you missed the first blog go here to read it before reading this...

The Welsh language, its Culture, and Artificial Intelligence – Issue 1

by Gareth Watkins | Oct 31, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Uncategorized

Welcome, dear reader, to the first instalment in a new series of blogs which attempt to underline the importance of culture in the context of technology, focusing on one of the shining stars of technology, namely Artificial Intelligence, or AI. AI has now permeated...

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  • The Welsh language, its Culture, and Artificial Intelligence – Issue 5
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  • The Welsh language, its Culture, and Artificial Intelligence – Issue 3

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