The Global South is rethinking AI but not yet controlling it

From Johannesburg to New Delhi, governments are reframing artificial intelligence around justice and sovereignty. But control over infrastructure and governance remains concentrated elsewhere.

The Just AI Conference is the flagship event of Research ICT Africa’s Africa Just AI project, a continental initiative that is part of the AI4D Africa program launched in 2020 with backing from development agencies in Canada, Sweden and the U.K. (Research ICT Africa)

A set of questions is becoming central to global debates on artificial intelligence: who…