Artificial Intelligence

Leveraging Responsible, Explainable, and Local Artificial Intelligence Solutions for Clinical Public Health in the Global South

Publications

By: Jake Effoduh In the present paper, we will explore how artificial intelligence (AI) and big data analytics (BDA) can help address clinical public and global health needs in the Global South, leveraging and capitalizing on our experience with the “Africa-Canada Artificial Intelligence and Data Innovation Consortium” (ACADIC) Project in the Global South, and focusing on the ethical and regulatory challenges we had to face. “Clinical public health” can be defined as an interdisciplinary field, […]

Leveraging Responsible, Explainable, and Local Artificial Intelligence Solutions for Clinical Public Health in the Global South Read More »

A Global South Perspective on Explainable AI

Media Articles

By: Jake Effoduh A context-driven approach is necessary to translate principles like explainability into practice globally. These vignettes illustrate how AI can be made more trustworthy for users in the Global South through more creative, context-rooted approaches to legibility. This article explores how realizing the concept of explainable AI could benefit from some subaltern propositions observed from an African context. One proposition is the incorporation of humans serving as AI explainers akin to griots or

A Global South Perspective on Explainable AI Read More »

The Role and Potential of Artificial Intelligence in Extremist-Fuelled Election Misinformation in Africa

Media Articles, Publications

By: Jake Effoduh The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) has ushered in a new era of technological possibilities, transforming industries and societies worldwide. However, its impact on African democracies reveals a complex interplay between technological advancement and the persistent threats of extremism and voter disenfranchisement. In Africa, where political landscapes are often marked by instability and ethno-tribal/religious divisions, the potential for technology, particularly AI, to be exploited by extremist groups to cause political stability poses

The Role and Potential of Artificial Intelligence in Extremist-Fuelled Election Misinformation in Africa Read More »

Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights in Africa

Publications

By: Jake Effoduh The many foundational ways of understanding the concept of artificial intelligence (AI) encompass logic, probability, continuous mathematics, reasoning, perception, and law (among other subjects). Broadly speaking, AI refers to any machine or program capable of recreating one or more elements of human intelligence. It is where machines, artificial agents, and further complex systems mimic cognitive functions, such as reasoning, problem-solving, and learning, that humans would associate with their own. It is seen

Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights in Africa Read More »

Should the Use of Lethal Autonomous Robots be Permitted in Warfare?

Publications

By: Jake Effoduh This article explores how lethal autonomous robots may advance or undermine the rules of international humanitarian law (laws that regulate the conduct of war and armed conflict). It also attempts to provide insight on the value (or otherwise) of the current proposal before the United Nations to ban autonomous weapons systems.  Click here to read

Should the Use of Lethal Autonomous Robots be Permitted in Warfare? Read More »