English is the internet’s primary tongue—a fact that may have unexpected consequences as generative AI becomes central to daily life.Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani. Source: Getty.Listen to this articleListen to more stories on harkRecently, Bonaventure Dossou learned of an alarming tendency in a popular AI model. The program described Fon—a language spoken by Dossou’s mother and millions of others in Benin and neighboring countries—as “a fictional language.”This result, which I replicated,...