INTERVIEW: AI expert warns of 'digital colonization' in Africa

Artificial intelligence (AI) is ripe to help resolve certain major problems in Africa, from farming to the health sector, but Senegalese expert Seydina Moussa Ndiaye is warning of a new ��colonization�� of the continent by this new technology if foreign companies continue to feed on African data without involving local actors.

One of 38 people members of the new Ģ��Ƶ advisory body on machine learning, Mr. Ndiaye spoke with Ģ��Ƶ News about the landscape ahead, building on his experience in helping to drive Senegal��s digital transformation in higher education, serving as an expert to the African Union in drafting the Pan-African Strategy on AI and in contributing to the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI).
AI expert Seydina NDiaye is one of the 38 experts of the Ģ��Ƶ High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence.

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