Africa's Role as a Normative Authority in AI Governance Debates
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Leah Junck
Summary
Dr. Leah Junck argues that Africa should be recognized as a site of normative authority in global AI governance debates, rather than being viewed merely as a landscape of opportunity and risk. The article discusses how digital rights are being shaped in African contexts and the need to rethink norm-setting in the continent's digital present. It references the canceled RightsCon gathering in Zambia as a missed opportunity to center these questions.
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· 2 pulledGlobal debates on AI tend to cast Africa as a landscape of opportunity and risk—but rarely as a site of normative authority.
RightsCon... would have been one of the rare moments to place the question of how digital rights are actually being made in African contexts squarely on the center stage.
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