Nigeria Is Building an AI Economy. Who Will Protect Nigerians When the Algorithms Get It Wrong?

Reported by African Arguments · Thu 17:25 · Glory Chidera Madueke

By the time Nigeria puts together all of the policies needed to regulate artificial intelligence, elements of the technology might have already been implemented. In May, Nigeria’s federal government unveiled an open-access, multilingual voice and text assistant called GovGuide Nigeria, built by…

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