New Documentary Explores AI Concerns and Innovations in Ghana Ghananewsonline.com.gh [Video]

The documentary ‘AI: Saving Lives and Languages in Ghana’, by award-winning reporter Sophia Smith Galer, looks at the attitudes and experiences behind Ghanaians’ negative perceptions of AI. It delves into findings from the World Risk Poll, a global study of risks to people’s safety by Lloyd’s Register Foundation, which highlighted that many Ghanaians felt AI would do more harm than good over the next 20 years.

The poll, which surveyed 125,000 people across 121 countries on multiple topics, found that 47% of respondents in Ghana felt AI was potentially harmful compared to 28% who viewed it as helpful. Given the country’s pioneering role in developing new AI systems – it is the home of Google’s first Africa Artificial Intelligence lab, which opened in 2019 – these results were investigated further in Sophia’s new documentary.

“The Lloyd’s Register Foundation World Risk Poll data around AI demonstrated a clear trend in which nations at the forefront of AI development were more …