The Hidden Costs of Technological Colonialism in Africa
The Hidden Costs of Technological Colonialism in Africa
African AI ethicists, researchers, technologists, and policy advocates are warning that global AI governance frameworks fail to reflect Africa’s realities. They point to a long pattern in which Western tech firms extract African data and control the terms of connectivity. As a result, African governments often inherit systems they did not build, cannot fully control, and that were never designed for shared benefit. #AfricanCurrents spoke with Dr. Edmund Terem Ugar, a South African AI governance expert and researcher, about concerns that artificial intelligence is becoming a new form of colonialism in Africa.
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