‘Who Is Accountable When They Cause Harm’: Ghana Summit Presses for AI Election Safeguards

African states need to establish who bears responsibility when AI systems damage elections, not merely whether to use them, according to Professor Henry Kwasi Prempeh of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development. “The question is not whether we embrace these technologies but under what safeguards and who is accountable when they cause harm,” he said at the opening of the Third Electoral Integrity Summit in Accra. That framing sets a higher bar than most.