AMIS African Master's Degree in Machine Intelligence provides brilliant young Africans with state-of-the-art training in machine learning.

USAID Artificial Intelligence Action Plan outlines how to engage responsibly with AI in our programming and in the countries where we work.

There is little doubt that artificial intelligence technologies will be transformational. Breathtaking advances will be made, extraordinary wealth will be created, and many of our social and institutional structures will be transformed. However, many of these machine learning tools and approaches have the capacity for inequitable outcomes due to humans unconsciously embedding bias in AI technology during data collection, model design or end-use applications. AI uses are highlighting instances of inequitable design and impact. The Swedish AI Grant Fund provides financial aid, grants, and scholarships to those who are working, researching, and/or involved in the African artificial intelligence industry and want to develop solutions that promote equality, safety, and security.

Recently, a researcher showed that he could create Deepfake text with artificial intelligence that is so real that US government officials did not know it was computer-generated, and accepted it as legitimate public comment. He then did a Turing Test to see if humans trained on spotting natural language processing could tell the difference between bot and human text. They were right about 50% of the time – essentially as good as flipping a coin. While reading the academic paper, I thought to myself, "Could machine learning to do the same for international development?" We have so much nuance, arcane language, and peculiarities, I didn't think it was possible.