Opinion: AI Governance in Africa Cannot Be an Afterthought
African governments are being invited to comment on AI frameworks drafted elsewhere. Consultation after the fact is not participation.
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African governments are being invited to comment on AI frameworks drafted elsewhere. Consultation after the fact is not participation.
Arguing about a hypothetical future system is more comfortable than arguing about the deployed ones. That is largely why it is so popular.
A number that improves every quarter is reassuring and largely decorative. Measuring what a system is good at is much harder than ranking it.