SAAIA is the brainchild of AI Media Africa co-founder Dr Nick Bradshaw, who has 25 years of experience in enterprise collaboration software and cloud platforms.Bradshaw said AI Media Africa’s research had shown AI and related automation technologies impacted over 120 traditional industries globally and created new opportunities and challenges in a time scale “never seen before”.
“The speed of this disruption is faster than any other industrial revolution that has gone before it,” Bradshaw stated. “SAAIA seeks to encourage stakeholders in the adoption of responsible AI for the commercial and societal benefit of the citizens of South Africa with a primary focus on regulation, economic growth, trade, investment, fairness, equality and inclusivity.”Data Economy Policy Hub