Nigeria Is Building an AI Economy. Who Will Protect Nigerians When the Algorithms Get It Wrong?

By the time Nigeria puts together all of the policies needed to regulate artificial intelligence, elements of the technology might have already been implemented. In May, Nigeria’s federal government unveiled an open-access, multilingual voice and text assistant called GovGuide Nigeria, built by Publica AI with Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, NCAIR and Meta. Its stated goal is to assist Nigerians in accessing government services in English, Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. A month later, in June, Communications Minister Bosun Tijani laid out the plan for a National AI Trust that would guide the next phase of Nigeria’s […] The post Nigeria Is Building an AI Economy. Who Will Protect Nigerians When the Algorithms Get It Wrong? appeared first on African Arguments.