‘Automation Can Inherit a Gender’: Letsike Sets Out Three Frontiers of the AI Divide

South Africa’s traditional measure of the digital divide — whether people can get online — is no longer adequate, Deputy Minister in the Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities Mmapaseka Steve Letsike told the first Youth, AI and the Future of Work Summit, setting out a three-tier framework in its place. Speaking at Wits University at an event hosted by the South African Digital Governance Forum under the theme “The AI Divide – Ensuring Youth, Women and Persons with Disabilitie