Africa's AI researchers are ready for takeoff

But it's high time we talked about another player: Africa. As MIT Technology Review has written before, AI is creating a new colonial world order, where the technology is enriching a small minority of people at the expense of the rest of the world. African AI researchers are determined to change that. However, they face many barriers. AI research is eye-wateringly expensive, and African startups and researchers get a fraction as much funding as their Western or Asian counterparts. They have to innovate and rely on open-source resources to do more with less.