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Is Africa prepared for the future of artificial intelligence and its potential to help spread disinformation? kasujja hears from NiNanjira, Fellow in Tech and International Affairs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 🔊

Artificial intelligence is the science behind human intelligence in machines.But there is a downside to it, if used for spreading disinformation or committing crimes from scams to hacks and cyberattacks.

And this is where regulations and policies to safeguard against such types of negative AI use come in.Alan Kasujja has been speaking to Nanjira Sambuli, Fellow, in Tech and International Affairs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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