What is Africa doing about this? Especially Nigeria. As the western world ramps up technological innovations, do we just want to remain consumers of technology in Africa as we have always been? This kind of competition was what led to the massive development of Europe, America and South East Asia.

"China is betting on AI and investing in AI and
deploying AI on a scale no other country is doing,"
says Abishur Prakash, a futurist and author of
books about the effect of artificial intelligence (AI)
on geopolitics.
As developments in AI accelerate, some in the US
fear that the ability of China's powerful central
government to marshal data and pour resources into
the field will push it ahead.
The country has announced billions in funding for
start-ups, launched programmes to woo researchers
from overseas and streamlined its data policies.
It has announced news-reading robots and AI-
powered strategy for foreign relations. Perhaps
most alarming to the US are its efforts to
incorporate it into its military.

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