Who Controls AI Controls the Future (feat Lavina Ramkissoon)

About this episode

The episode explores the ownership and implications of AI technology in Africa with guest Lavina Ramkissoon.

Who will own Africa’s AI future? Artificial Intelligence is rapidly becoming the most important technology of our time — reshaping economies, industries, governments, and societies. But as AI becomes embedded into everything we do, a critical question emerges: Who owns the intelligence? Who owns the data? Who builds the infrastructure? And who benefits from the value AI creates? In this latest episode of Exponential Africa, I sit down with Lavina Ramkissoon to explore on...

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Host: Be Exponential

Guest: Lavina Ramkissoon

Topics covered

• Artificial Intelligence
• data ownership
• infrastructure
• economic impact
• technology governance

Keywords

• AI
• Africa
• data
• infrastructure
• technology
• economy
• ownership

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