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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">“ </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"><i class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0">Indeed, the idea of a new international watchdog overseeing this new technology
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"><i class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0">But given Africa’s future role in global markets, there is a strong case for this new body to be based in Cairo, Lagos, Nairobi or Cape Town, rather than in
London. Indeed, if it is not, there is a real risk that the digital inequalities between Africa and the rest of the world will be exacerbated by AI, not reduced or managed.</i></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"><i class="x_x_x_ContentPasted0">The time is now to be thinking these issues through – and planning ahead – before AI really scales up on the continent, because by then, it will be too late
to pull back.</i></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">”</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Suchith</span></p>
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