On January 30, Yasmine Abdillahi, a nonresident senior fellow with the Africa Center published an article in Le Monde arguing that although Africa accounts for nearly 20% of the world’s population, it contributes less than 1% of the data used to train AI systems. This imbalance, she warns, risks excluding African languages, cultures, and lived realities from artificial intelligence.
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