AI & Africa Music Pilot Project

"While it is commendable that South Africa is committed to securing our digital resources through data sovereignty policies such as the Protection of Personal Information Act, or Popia, there is an urgent next step: to attain algorithmic sovereignty," writes Professor Benjamin Rosman, Director of the Wits Machine Intelligence and Neural Discovery (MIND) Institute.

Dr Nomalanga Mashinini, Senior Lecturer in Cyber Law at the School of Law, unpacks the lessons learnt after the South African government had to withdraw the draft National Artificial Intelligence Policy because several academic journals cited in the document were ‘fictitious’.

"Africa is not just participating in the AI revolution. It’s powering it, not with venture capital or patents, but with something far more indispensable: human labour," writes Professor Rennie Naidoo, Research Director at the Wits School of Business.

Professor Rennie Naidoo takes a loser look at hidden risks behind AI-generated code, saying South Africa’s technology leaders must rethink their growing dependence on AI-assisted software development.

AI is rapidly shaping law, rights and digital life across the continent. While there is a plethora of regulations, a structural misalignment among law, technology, and society is causing harm. The African Cyber Law Conference gives insights into how AI is shaping law, rights, and digital life across the continent.

Professor Ruksana Osman, Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Academic, advocates that innovative technologies like artificial intelligence should be considered as tools that can be harnessed for the benefit of teaching and learning.

"Our findings suggest that many existing systems—and most XAI user studies—are biased toward individualist Western populations, yet their results are often unjustifiably generalised to non-Western contexts," writes Dr Mary Carman and Assistant Professor Uwe Peters.