Given that there are so many AI issues concerning diverse African contexts, there is scope for a multi-country analysis. Here’s an introduction:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Scott Nover, GZero, Will AI help or hurt Africa?, 22 Oct 2024 <\/a> (Also on Apple News<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Given that there are so many AI issues concerning diverse African contexts, there is scope for a multi-country analysis. Here’s an introduction: Scott Nover, GZero, Will AI help or hurt Africa?, 22 Oct 2024 (Also on Apple News) ” [But]… there\u2019s also concern that AI could deepen existing digital divides \u2014 especially if popular large…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,790,473,103,371,275,787,525,181],"tags":[530,85,789,373,788,791,184],"class_list":["post-7565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-central-africa","category-digital-divide","category-digital-mena","category-east-africa","category-mena","category-south-africa","category-sub-saharan-africa","category-west-africa","tag-africa","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-central-africa","tag-east-africa","tag-south-africa","tag-sub-saharan-africa","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7566,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7565\/revisions\/7566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
” [But]… there\u2019s also concern that AI could deepen existing digital divides \u2014 especially if popular large language models aren\u2019t developed with Africa in mind, don\u2019t support local languages, or if the continent lacks the infrastructure to run high-powered models efficiently.\u2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n