MIT Technology Review November 12, 2024
But the continent’s AI sector faces many challenges.
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When we talk about the global race for AI dominance, the conversation often focuses on tensions between the US and China, and European efforts at regulating the technology.
But it’s high time we talked about another player: Africa.
As MIT Technology Review has written before, AI is creating a new colonial world order, where the technology is enriching a small minority of people at the expense of the rest of the world.
African AI researchers are determined to change that. They’re forging their own path, developing tools...
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