Excerpt and photo from antiguaobserver.com
How does artificial intelligence (AI) fit into a Caribbean context, and who will benefit?
Those are some of the questions that two St Lucian women will be answering when they host the inaugural AI Global South Summit from October 29-31 in St Lucia.
Kem-Laurin Lubin and Gale Rigobert are co-chairs of the not-for-profit foundation, and have extensive expertise in both AI and education.
Rigobert, an international education consultant, and a former Education Minister in St Lucia, has over a decade in academia specialising in international relations and in political leadership, while Lubin is completing her doctorate in artificial intelligence and a scholarship at the University of Waterloo in Canada.
The duo aim to spark critical conversations about AI, dispelling fears that the technology will replace human jobs and helping Caribbean nations keep pace with global technological advancements.
“The Global South always seems to be lagging behind because of lack of resources, lack of know-how, not investing adequately in research and development. So, we find ourselves being consumers and downloaders and not active participants in the creation of technology,” Rigobert explained.