4 papers
Financing Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure: Mapping AI Infrastructure Investment and Compute Governance Across Africa
Kai-Hsin Hung, Sumaya Nur Adan, Krupa Suchak +3
Artificial intelligence depends on large-scale compute resources and their supporting infrastructure. However, AI governance debates treat compute primarily as a technical input ra…
The Future of the AI Summit Series
Lucia Velasco, Charles Martinet, Henry de Zoete +27
This policy memo examines the evolution of the international AI Summit series, initiated at Bletchley Park in 2023 and continued through Seoul in 2024 and Paris in 2025, as a forum…
Toward an African Agenda for AI Safety
Samuel T. Segun, Rachel Adams, Ana Florido +22
This paper maps Africa's distinctive AI risk profile, from deepfake fuelled electoral interference and data colonial dependency to compute scarcity, labour disruption and dispropor…
Can apparent bystanders distinctively shape an outcome? Global south countries and global catastrophic risk-focused governance of artificial intelligence
Cecil Abungu, Michelle Malonza, Sumaya Nur Adan
Increasingly, there is well-grounded concern that through perpetual scaling-up of computation power and data, current deep learning techniques will create highly capable artificial…