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Ethiopian AI expert, Timnit Gebru, wins 'alternative Nobel'

Published by France24 Africa By Georja CALVIN-SMITH · 30 September 2026 at 23:44
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Ethiopian AI expert, Timnit Gebru, wins 'alternative Nobel'
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In tonight's edition, Africa's richest man breaks ground on a 16 billion dollar oil refinery in Kenya. Also, at universities across Cameroon, programming is overshadowed with uncertainty amidst an indefinite strike by lecturers. And I speak to Ethiopian-born computer scientist and pioneering AI ethicist Timnit Gebru as she is honored with the Swedish Right Livelihood Award for her work on how AI is influenced by bias

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