*UP’s AI-driven work includes groundbreaking projects like the “Abstracts into Indigenous Voices” initiative, which utilises human and machine translation to make academic research abstracts available in indigenous languages, such as isiZulu and Sepedi. The work highlights the “digital scarcity” of African-language data for AI models, but it’s a hands-on way to make indigenous languages strong enough for the digital age and to fight against unfair social biases in technology.