Responsible AI in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities

It discusses AI ethics from an African perspective, highlighting the need for African values, interests, and principles to underpin the design, development, and deployment of AI in Africa. The book pays attention to the socio-cultural contexts of Responsible AI and makes an important contribution to the global AI ethics discourse.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 216 pages
Publication date: 24 December 2022
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

It contributes to the discourse of Responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) from an African perspective. It is a unique collection that brings together prominent AI scholars to discuss AI ethics from theoretical and practical African perspectives and makes a case for African values, interests, expectations, and principles to underpin the design, development, and deployment (DDD) of AI in Africa. The book is a first in that it pays attention to the socio-cultural contexts of Responsible AI that are sensitive to African cultures and societies. It makes an important contribution to the global AI ethics discourse that often neglects AI narratives from Africa despite growing evidence of DDD in many domains. Nine original contributions provide useful insights to advance the understanding and implementation of Responsible AI in Africa, including discussions on epistemic injustice of global AI ethics, opportunities and challenges, an examination of AI co-bots and chatbots in an African work space, gender and AI, a consideration of African philosophies such as Ubuntu in the application of AI, African AI policy, and a look towards a future of Responsible AI in Africa.

This open access book contributes to the discourse of Responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) from an African perspective.

It is a unique collection that brings together prominent AI scholars to discuss AI ethics from theoretical and practical African perspectives and makes a case for African values, interests, expectations, and principles to underpin the design, development, and deployment (DDD) of AI in Africa.

The book is a first in that it pays attention to the socio-cultural contexts of Responsible AI that are sensitive to African cultures and societies. It makes an important contribution to the global AI ethics discourse that often neglects AI narratives from Africa despite growing evidence of DDD in many domains.

Nine original contributions provide useful insights to advance the understanding and implementation of Responsible AI in Africa, including discussions on epistemic injustice of global AI ethics, opportunities and challenges, an examination of AI co-bots and chatbots in an African work space, gender and AI, a consideration of African philosophies such as Ubuntu in the application of AI, African AI policy, and a look towards a future of Responsible AI in Africa.

Weight: 322g
Dimension: 208 x 147 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031082177
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023