South africa 2020-2021

AI Narratives in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (University of Cambridge) and the Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, are delighted to announce a series of three virtual workshops entitled ‘Global AI Narratives: Sub-Saharan Africa’.

Different cultures see Artificial Intelligence through very different lenses: diverse religious, linguistic, philosophical, literary, and cinematic traditions have led to diverging conceptions of what intelligent machines can and should be. The Global AI Narratives: Sub-Saharan Africa workshops are part of a series of events dedicated to the dissemination of these diverse AI narratives around the world.

Funded by DeepMind Ethics and Society and the Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc., the Global AI Narratives Project aims to establish new connections between academics, artists, writers, designers and technologists working on AI in different regions of the world.

This panel forms part of the Science Forum South Africa 2020. Learn more here.

For enquires, please contact Elizabeth Seger.

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