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National AI Summit in Johannesburg Highlights Urgent Need for Regulation

TL;DR

  • Experts at the National AI Summit in Johannesburg stressed the urgent need for regulations to ensure safe and ethical AI use.
  • South African Minister of Communications highlighted the importance of AI always serving human interests.
  • Advances in assistive AI technologies, like speech-controlled wheelchairs, offer significant benefits for individuals with disabilities.

AI Summit of the Nation – where people at the level of policymakers, workshop members, and other stakeholders gather together, took us in following a crucial question: Need AI regulations considering the growing demand for governance? The event gave us a lot of evidence that the eligible conclusions of the strategy are workable about AI delivery and use.

Urgency of AI regulation

Leaders at this summit emphasized the importance of being careful with AI innovation development, especially given that the congress rules do not always respond quickly enough in this timeframe. During the Africa Tech Summit in Cape Town, South Africa’s Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Mondli Gungubele, pointed out how AI can have a substantial influence on human life and emphasized the importance of aligning the AI development with one’s interests

According to Mr. Gungubele, AI is the hardest issue that the Tayidi will have to conquer to keep what is human-dominant. First, he argued that it was very important to create rules before the scientist in charge of everything, as they may allow the scientist to control everything.

In other words, the foremost priority for AI was to clearly show that it is of real assistance compared to all the possible pitfalls. AI is a topic that the group was focused on. The subject was the pros we can get from AI for complex problems and the ethical determinations that need to be made. During the event, it was noted that assistance AI technologies result from designers’ desire to eliminate physical disability and improve the quality of life of everyone. Considering this, AI-based technologies are used to support disability relief.

Advancements in assistive technologies

The summit encompassed a session where assistive technology advances were showcased. The session focused on mobility solutions, which include, but are not limited to, wheelchairs. The novelty of technology is represented by the micromachinery, which can aid impaired individuals.

Mr. Paul Ntsinyi, a lecturer at the Central University of Technology, announced an amazing project that seeks to build a root of a plant that will provide voice support instead of using a switch, which could prevent the chance of bugs from eating the plant. This is another thought-provoking topic that tends to affect all people with paralyzed motor organs, especially during these days when mobility is seen as the number-one key to freedom, easy movement, and culturing.

AI ethics recommends that AI tools employ ethical and responsible practices

In light of the power supplied by AI, the summit to entirely reconstruct the regulation system for its usage is clear. Therefore, a network of rules and laws to control the activities of humans using AI has to be put in place. Ultimately, this makes a case for using AI tech as ethically and responsibly as possible. 

These technological innovations are on the menu while society is considered. Through it, we hope to engage and have conversations. The participants will be decision-makers, researchers, and business executives who will help us put down on paper the way of improving society, where AI plays an important role.

AI Summit in Johannesburg came as a venue where the nation’s leaders could talk about AI regulation and the decision to determine AI usefulness. With the AI breakthroughs in societal structures, it is paramount that the parties focus on policy formulation in departments that guide the development of regulations. This will allow AI benefits to be harnessed and limit risks to be avoided. Humanism-driven AI expansion and multi-disciplinary collaboration served as the base functioning of the summit because AI can create an ongoing process for the growth of technology in a highly sustainable manner.

Original story from: https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/496892/At-South-Africa-s-AI-summit-experts-discuss-regulation-and-opportunities

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