Analysis: Building AI on African Terms
By Bulelani Jili
The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) has reignited longstanding debates over sovereignty and dependency across Africa, now rearticulated through the language of digital sovereignty. Optimism about AI’s capacity to improve public services, strengthen logistics systems, and expand access to education is tempered by growing anxieties over job displacement, uneven value capture, and continued technological dependency on the US and China.
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Source: African Business (link opens in a new window)
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