Opportunity or takeover? Tool or trap? It’s time to ask the real questions. Artificial Intelligence is disrupting every creative sector, from writing and music to design, animation, and coding. While it opens new doors for creation, collaboration, and efficiency, it also raises urgent questions around ownership, ethics, and justice, especially for African creators.
Who owns the data that trains AI? Can algorithms respect culture? What happens when your style, your language, or your archives are scraped to feed models that profit elsewhere? This talk unpacks both the power and the danger of AI in the African context : as a tool to democratize creation and speed up production as a risk for intellectual property theft, devaluation of labor, and cultural erasure we’ll hear from artists, lawyers, researchers, and developers who are building (or challenging) the future of AI, and ask how to make sure African creativity is not just “used,” but truly recognized, respected and rewarded.
Speakers:
- Hammed AROWOSEGBE, founder of Swift XR (NIG)
- Hussein Dembel SOW, digital artist (SEN)
Moderator: David ADELEKE
Crédit photo de bannière : ©Culture.SIPA
Capacity: 200-250 people
