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Artificial intelligence is often associated with prophecies of job destruction. Yet an army of workers in the global south is being pressed into action. Mark Graham In discussions about the locations comprising the key productive nodes of artificial intelligence and other next-generation digital technologies, African workers rarely get a mention. Autonomous vehicles, machine-learning systems, next-generation search engines and recommendations systems—how many of these technologies are ‘made in Africa’? The answer, actually, is ‘all of them’.
In a paper from which this […]
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