AI@70: How Uganda is embracing the technology

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In June 2026, Uganda and UNESCO validated the country’s AI Readiness Assessment on its preparedness to adopt and govern AI responsibly

NEWS ANALYSIS | IAN KATUSIIME | The machine that decides the price of a Ugandan’s airline ticket, helps a farmer detect pest damage or writes a student’s essay has almost nothing in common with the room where Artificial Intelligence was born.

Seventy years ago, a small group of scientists gathered at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, U.S. with an audacious proposition: that human intelligence could be described precisely enough for a machine to simulate it.