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11:00 Uhr

Whose Future Is AI Building? Ownership, Agency, and Ethics in African Technological Futures

Webinar|Dreaming New Worlds

Whose Future Is AI Building? Ownership, Agency, and Ethics in African Technological Futures poster © Ayobami Farouk

Speaker: Olajumoke Coker  

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly shaping how we create, remember, govern, and imagine the future. Yet important questions remain: whose knowledge is recognized, whose voices are amplified and who benefits from technological innovation? This session explores the legal and ethical stakes of AI from an African perspective, examining questions of ownership, agency and creativity. It considers how AI intersects with intellectual property, cultural heritage, data governance, bias, and community self-determination while asking who whose interests are reflected in its design and deployment.