Pope Leo XIV called Monday for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from work to war.
While the Pope preaches AI ethics from Vatican halls, Africa remains conspicuously absent from global tech governance conversations despite being the testing ground for surveillance capitalism and algorithmic exploitation from Nairobi's gig economy to Lagos' fintech experiments. The continent that built civilisation shouldn't need papal permission to demand algorithmic sovereignty, especially when Silicon Valley and Beijing are already writing the code that will govern African futures.
While the Pope preaches AI ethics from Vatican halls, Africa remains conspicuously absent from global tech governance conversations despite being the testing ground for surveillance capitalism and algorithmic exploitation from Nairobi's gig economy to Lagos' fintech experiments. The continent that built civilisation shouldn't need papal permission to demand algorithmic sovereignty, especially when Silicon Valley and Beijing are already writing the code that will govern African futures.
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