The incident is being treated as an embarrassment. It’s something more serious: a failure of the very standards the revised policy must uphold.
Articles on AI in Africa
Displaying all articles
The film insists that young Africans are not just passive recipients of imported technologies. They’re also active creators.
When a language isn’t in the data, its speakers aren’t in the product – and AI cannot be safe, useful, or fair for them.
Policy-makers must grapple with an uncomfortable truth: without deliberate action, AI will magnify global divides.
As South Africa moves towards a national AI strategy, the focus must be on people and not just technology.
Top contributors
-
Research professor, University of Cambridge; University of Cape Town
-
Assistant Professor, University of Alberta
-
Honorary Research Fellow of The Ethics Lab, University of Cape Town
-
Lecturer and chair of the Department of Computer Science, Maseno University
-
Assistant Professor, Harvard University
-
Senior Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
-
Chair of Data Science, Professor of Computer Science, Director AfriDSAI, University of Pretoria