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Beyond the good and bad: Making sense of the AU-Continental AI Strategy for African people
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Between the 18th and the 19th of July, the African Union (AU) endorsed the African Union Strategy on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Accra, Ghana, during the 45th Ordinary Session. This endorsement has been met with considerable applause from several actors in policymaking, governance, data science and development spaces within and outside of Africa. This acclaim pointed towards the timely release of this strategy that allows Africa to join the global AI conversation, particularly with respect to being on top of planning for its people to both benefit in a development perspective but also be protected from the harms these systems pose as a whole.
