
The stories shaping Africa’s AI future
From leapfrogging optimism to warnings of a new extraction economy, the frameworks now defining Africa’s AI moment will decide who gets to shape the future and who is shaped by it
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Scott Timcke is a political theorist and author of Algorithms and the End of Politics, currently completing a manuscript on capitalist AI and democratic and authoritarian governance.

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