Kubayi Warns AI Trained on Foreign Data Risks “Digitised Racial Segregation” in South Africa

Artificial intelligence systems trained largely on foreign datasets risk perpetuating racial bias and undermining South Africa’s transformative constitutional vision if they are not built with local historical context, Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi has warned. Kubayi delivered the warning on Thursday at the University of Johannesburg’s “AI and the Law” conference, arguing that while AI-powered tools could sharply reduce legal costs and delays, the same technolo