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Anthropic, South Africa and the emerging divide in AI governance

As AI companies debate moral reasoning in AI, the Global South struggles to build credible systems for AI oversight.

The Africa Forward Summit, co-hosted by Kenya and France in Nairobi this week, focuses on collaboration and innovative ideas.
The Africa Forward Summit, co-hosted by Kenya and France in Nairobi this week, focuses on collaboration and innovative ideas to shape Africa’s future, including scaling up the ability to meet Africa's AI needs. (South African Government)

Two recent episodes have highlighted a widening divide in global artificial intelligence governance.

In San Francisco, Anthropic invited Christian theologians, priests and philosophers to discuss how its Claude chatbot should respond to grief, self-harm and questions surrounding its own possible “demise.” The closed-door discussions reflected the company’s growing focus on embedding moral reasoning into frontier AI systems.

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