News Summary

• Seydina Moussa Ndiaye is a senior lecturer at Cheikh Hamidou Kane Digital University in Dakar, Senegal.
• She is working on a strategy with the African Union to address the risks and benefits of AI for the continent.
• “When we talk about colonialism historically, that involves the control of resources and knowledge, and we see that in Africa when we talks about AI,” she says.
• ‘If we don’t create also our own AI solution, it could be very, very bad for Africa also,’ she adds.