3 papers
cs.CY2026
Assessing the Case for Africa-Centric AI Safety Evaluations
Gathoni Ireri, Cecil Abungu, Jean Cheptumo +6
Frontier AI systems are being adopted across Africa, yet most AI safety evaluations are designed and validated in Western environments. In this paper, we argue that the portability…
cs.CY2025
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…
cs.CY2023
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…