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Africa Risks 'Digital Colonialism' Without AI Sovereignty, Senegalese Researcher Warns

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As artificial intelligence spreads across Africa, experts are raising concerns that the continent could once again become a supplier of raw resources, this time in the form of data, knowledge and digital labour, unless it gains greater control over its AI ecosystem.

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