UN AI Panel Member: African Countries Should Start With the Problem, Not the Technology

African countries should identify the problems facing their communities before deciding what data, infrastructure and technology to acquire, according to Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, a member of the UN’s Independent International Scientific Panel on AI. “We are trying to bring the reality of our environment and integrate AI technology with the local problems we face,” Tadesse said. “It is important to ask ourselves what problems we want to solve first.” Tadesse leads Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab in Keny