7 Ways that African States are Legitimizing Artificial Intelligence

<p>Several <a href="https://www.oxfordinsights.com/ai-readiness2019" target="_blank">reports on States’ adoption of Artificial Intelligence</a> (“AI”) across the world have indicated that African countries have a “slow” or “low” AI adoption rate. This position is, however, changing, as several African countries are now bringing a modest acceptance of AI into different aspects of their governance structures and institutions. With what I will characterize as an era of “AI normative emergence in Africa”, here are seven ways that this technology is being legitimized and integrated by African states today:</p> <ol> <li>Developing National AI Strategies</li> <li>Establishing AI Agencies, Task Forces and Commissions</li> <li>Amending Existing Laws and Creating New Regulations</li> <li>Building Strategic Partnerships</li> <li>Initiating Public Sector Reform with AI</li> <li>Driving AI Education, Training and Research</li> <li>Fostering A Continental (African) Approach to AI</li> </ol>