---
id: "action-include-anthropologists"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["§ How to Develop a Country-Level AI Strategy"]
tags: ["team-building", "cross-functional", "localization"]
related: ["concept-localized-ai-execution", "framework-global-ai-strategy"]
action: "Integrate anthropologists, local experts, and ethicists into AI development teams alongside engineers."
outcome: "Creation of culturally resonant AI products that navigate local ethical and legal landscapes successfully."
speakers: ["Yasuhiro Yamakawa", "Thomas H. Davenport"]
sources: ["futures"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-futures"
originDay: 2
articleStem: "hbr-cl-94-ai-strategy-beyond-us-china"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2025/12/your-ai-strategy-needs-to-expand-beyond-the-u-s-and-china"
sourceTitle: "Your AI Strategy Needs to Expand Beyond the U.S. and China"
---
# Include anthropologists and ethicists in AI teams

**Action:** Integrate anthropologists, local experts, and ethicists into AI development teams alongside engineers.

**Do this:** To ensure AI systems are culturally and ethically aligned with local markets, make development teams cross-disciplinary. Do not rely solely on coders and engineers. Integrate **anthropologists, local market experts, and ethicists** into the core development process to vet logic, user experience, and risk levels against local standards. This is the team-composition requirement inside [[concept-localized-ai-execution]] and step 4 of the [[framework-global-ai-strategy]]; enrichment links it to *Value Sensitive Design*.

**Outcome:** Culturally resonant AI products that navigate local ethical and legal landscapes successfully.