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Africa’s push to regulate AI starts now

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Africa should prioritize the development of an AI industry before trying to regulate the technology. More than 50 countries and the EU have AI strategies in place, and more than 700 AI policy initiatives have been implemented since 2017. But only five of those initiatives are from Africa and none of the OECD's 38 member countries are African.

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Africa’s push to regulate AI starts now

In the Zanzibar archipelago of Tanzania, rural farmers are using an AI-assisted app called Nuru that works in their native language of Swahili to detect a devastating cassava disease before it spreads. In South Africa, computer scientists have built machine learning models to analyze the impact of racial segregation in housing. And in Nairobi, Kenya, AI classifies images from thousands of surveillance cameras perched on lampposts in the bustling…

2 months ago·Boston, United States

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