Siliconsciousness: Why We Need Whole-of-Planet AI Solutions: A Look at AI in Africa

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Conversations on AI typically deal with impacts in the US, Asia, and Europe. Yet the impact of AI on Africa, and Africa on AI, is immense. Professor and Director of the MIND Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand Benjamin Rosman joins David Rothkopf to explore the unique perspectives coming from Africa in the tech space, why grassroots movements drive innovation, and how unique resource constraints are forcing a creative departure from the “bigger is better” obsession in Silicon Valley. This material is distributed by TRG Advisory Services, LLC on behalf of the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates in the U.S.. Additional information is available at the Department of Justice, Washington, DC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:18.4	Welcome to CILA Consciousness, the DSR Network podcast focusing on the artificial intelligence revolution, Politics and Policy. Hello and welcome to this episode of CILA Consciousness.
1:22.0	I am your host, David Rothkof, and this week is every week.
1:24.7	We'll be talking with someone we think can expand your horizons
1:28.6	as you think about AI and its implications. This week we're extremely fortunate to have with us,
1:34.9	Benjamin Rossman. He's a professor in the School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
1:40.5	at the University of Bitbottar Strand in South Africa, where he runs the robotics, autonomous
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