Top AI challenges in Africa: Ethics
The challenge of AI ethics is one of choice – what lives should AI improve, what actions should AI be allowed to take and what conditions need to be met before these actions are allowed in your society.
Assets from Alliance4ai’s gathering for Ai leaders meetups
The challenge of AI ethics is one of choice – what lives should AI improve, what actions should AI be allowed to take and what conditions need to be met before these actions are allowed in your society.
After 60 minutes of deliberation from leaders of top AI communities in Africa, we learnt that the single major challenge blocking Africa’s trained data scientists from using available data to build world class solutions is the difficulty and expense in accessing fast computers, built to make AI a reality in other continents.
I helped coordinate the inaugural gathering of AI community leaders in Africa and must say I am filled with hope that we will create an environment where people who would never have met before, commune like family, talk about challenges, exchange procedures and celebrate together.
June 6th 2020 was a historic day for me, as I helped bring a vision to life with my partners Essa Mohamedali and Alex Tsado. We had been working for two months to design a program that would empower AI community leaders across Africa to connect frequently and grow more efficiently.
Saturday 2nd May 2020, a day that may go down in history as the beginning of Africa wide collaboration of AI communities. This was the day 14 AI communities, representing 7,400 members came together to brainstorm and strategize what an Africa wide AI community should look like, and what it should focus on achieving. If …