Context
What happened: In an October 12 speech at Imperial College London, UK AI minister Kanishka Narayan argued governments need technical capacity to understand and shape AI-dependent societies, and that legislation alone cannot provide it.
Why it matters: The piece says Africa should build capability rather than rely on summits or imported systems, citing the African Union's July 2024 AI strategy and the Masakhane language-technology community as signs of existing capacity.