{
  "id": 3411,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00359v1",
  "title": "Next-Billion AI Index: The compass for AI utility and adoption in the global majority",
  "summary": "Generative AI assessments remain dominated by frontier capability benchmarks that often fail to capture whether systems can be sustainably deployed, adapted, and trusted in locally grounded and infrastructure-constrained settings. This paper introduces the Next Billion AI Index (nexbax), which we believe is the first diagnostic framework to treat economic viability, operational deployability, and governance alignment as co-equal determinants of AI utility in next-billion-user contexts. Rather th",
  "authors": "Ambrish Rawat, Jessica He, Subhabrata Majumdar, Claudio Pinhanez, Yann Le Beux, Satyapriya Krishna et al.",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation,safety-alignment,healthcare",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-05-29T21:01:42.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:30:14.369Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/3411",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00359v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}