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AFRICA

African researchers warn against AI hype

If anything, the programmes in their current incarnation are more like sophisticated parrots, incapable of original thought

  • Simon Allison
5 min read
Google AI Research Scientist Timnit Gebru speaks onstage during Day 3 of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 at Moscone Center on September 7, 2018 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch)
ABEBA BIRHANE

Timnit Gebru and the fight to make artificial intelligence work for Africa

As you read this, the future is being coded in Silicon Valley. The algorithms that will one day govern our lives are being built. But who is building them, and who are they being…

  • Simon Allison
12 min read
Timit Gebru
AFRICANS OF THE YEAR

The Continent’s Africans of the Year: Timnit Gebru

Rage against the machine: If we are not careful, artificial intelligence will replicate the racism inherent in today’s world. Timnit Gebru will not let that happen.

  • Nanjala Nyabola
  • The Continent
3 min read
AI

Artificial intelligence presents a moral dilemma

The world has a chance to set a new course so that everyone benefits from artificial intelligence

  • Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem
7 min read