Disinformation and fake news should not rob us of the opportunity to leverage on opportunities technology has to offer, President William Ruto has said. https://shorturl.at/0uUt6
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00:00While building the ecosystem to leverage on technology and the digital space for advancement,
00:09there will be challenges.
00:10It is the reason why we are discussing now with Parliament on how to enact regulations
00:19on AI, regulations around the digital space to make sure that the negative misinformation,
00:28disinformation, fake news does not rob us of the opportunity to use technology to drive
00:35our development.
00:36Because I am a great believer that technology gives us the largest opportunity for us to
00:45catch up with the rest of the world.
00:47It is the reason why I appointed a technology envoy, Mr Thigo, who is not, unfortunately
00:54is not here because of travel problems, he was coming from somewhere, he got stuck because
01:01of the situation we have.
01:03But it is the reason I also want us not to miss the opportunity.
01:08In fact, misinformation, disinformation, fake news should not rob us of the opportunity
01:17to take advantage of the opportunity technology and artificial intelligence gives us.
01:27We do not want another opportunity to be left behind.
01:31It is an opportunity for us to develop talent around technology and AI, it is an opportunity
01:37for us to develop expertise, and it is an opportunity for us not to be left behind again
01:45as we have done in the past, but this time round we want to be up to speed with the rest
01:51of the world in making sure that technology, AI become part of the ecosystem and we all
01:58benefit from it and avoid another digital or AI divide.