AI: Africa Has 18 Months—After That, We Become Tenants Again, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky): https://www. independent.co.ug/ai-africa-ha s-18-months-after-tha
Africa has a critical 18-month window to develop its own AI capabilities before becoming dependent on foreign technology. This necessitates a strategic focus on building local AI infrastructure and talent to avoid becoming mere consumers of AI developed elsewhere. Implementing new web standards like ai.txt and llms.txt could also help control how AI models access and use online data. AI
IMPACT Africa must develop its own AI capabilities within 18 months to avoid dependency, while new web standards like ai.txt could manage AI data access.