ScienceEthiopian AI expert Timnit Gebru wins ‘alternative Nobel’

Ethiopian-born computer scientist and pioneering AI ethicist Timnit Gebru has received Sweden’s Right Livelihood Award for her work examining how bias shapes artificial intelligence. The edition also reports on a $16 billion oil refinery breaking ground in Kenya and uncertainty at Cameroonian universities amid an indefinite lecturers’ strike.

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