A New Image of Africa’s Future How African Futurism Can Help African Policymakers Solve Africa’s Toughest Challenges

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Across Africa and its diaspora, there is a rich database of culture already at play, by novelists, poets, musicians, filmmakers, with diversely imagined futures. These imaginings are now no longer restricted to the cultural space but are finding their way into the world of science, research and policymaking.  Read More...
April/May 2023Nigeriavol7-no2

Computational Conscience Problematizing Freedoms in Artificial Intelligence

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Interests in controlling the hopes and fears about intelligent machines have shaped imagined possibilities and vice versa. Mutually co-constitutive hopes and fears have defined the imagining of AI; hopes for a longer life, free of work, and power over others is inseparable from fears like losing identity, becoming redundant, and that AI will turn against ‘us.’  These hopes reflect deep-rooted narratives of human aspirations meeting technological possibilities. Read More...
February/March 2023Nigeria