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Short answer, I don’t think so. Really it is a very complicated question that cannot simply be answered with a Yes or No. Take, for example, last Thursday, the Nigerian guardian newspaper published an article urging the government to focus on training more AI talent, implying that there are simply not enough AI technologists in...

I am taking a graduate policy seminar on Artificial Intelligence. Today’s topic is  “AI – Ethical problems and Legal solutions.” My amazing professor, Dr James Rogers, has invited the Palantir Whistleblower, Mr. Juan Sebastian Pinto, and he is speaking to us about the evils of AI: “AI is bad for the environment, look at how...

Yes, it is true that African countries provide valuable data services for foreign digital platforms like Meta, Google, Amazon, and more. For example, in these foreign platforms, raw data from Africa is analysed and monetised (used for data brokering, bartering or targeting). Africans also provide data extraction and labelling services to these foreign platforms. Yet...