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Toward AI Governance Alignment in Africa, Middle East, and Türkiye (AMET) Region
This report examines the core approaches shaping national AI strategies security-led, innovation-driven, rights-based, and developmental and how they cluster across Africa, the Middle East, and Turkey (AMET). It highlights shared regulatory challenges around data governance, accountability, standards, and sovereignty, shaped by capacity constraints and geopolitics. The analysis translates these dynamics into practical guidance for policymakers and technology actors navigating an evolving, fragmented global AI regulatory landscape.
Where AI Interventions Succeed or Fail
AI tools hold immense promise, but real-world outcomes often depend on how they interact with people and contexts. Research shows that factors like access, comprehension, trust, and opportunity what experts call “inflection points” can determine whether AI interventions succeed or fail. Case studies from Africa and beyond reveal that even high-performing models only deliver impact when these social and institutional conditions align.
The Global Center on AI Governance (GCG) works to reduce global inequalities caused by artificial intelligence. We do this through research, policy advice, and training that puts people and human rights at the center of AI governance.
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Understanding Public Perceptions of AI in South Africa
GCG partnered with South Africa’s HSRC to include an AI-focused module in the South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS). The 11-question module explores public perceptions of AI within the broader context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. This first-of-its-kind effort in Africa provides valuable insight into how people understand and engage with AI and serves as a pilot for future public perception studies across the continent.
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