- UK and partners to fund safe and responsible AI projects for development around the world, beginning in Africa, with £80m collaboration announced at AI Safety Summit
- Funding will support home-grown AI expertise and computing power in Africa and help the continent’s AI innovators boost growth and support the continent’s long-term development.
- The UK AI for Development Programme will contribute £38m to the collaboration which shows UK investing in partnerships which are using cutting-edge technology to solve global challenges. A new global partnership to use AI to solve some of the developing world’s most pressing challenges will be unveiled in the UK today at the AI Safety Summit.
Along with Canada, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the USA and partners in Africa, the UK is helping to fund a £80m ($100m) boost in AI programming to combat inequality and boost prosperity on the continent.
The goals of the UK Government’s AI for Development programme include:
- Unlocking the benefits of AI to the 700 million people who speak 46 African languages.
- Making 5 or more African countries globally influential in the worldwide conversation on AI including in using AI to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
- Creating or scaling up at least 8 responsible AI research labs at African universities
- Helping at least 10 countries create sound regulatory frameworks for responsible, equitable and safe AI.
- Help bring…
