Leveraging AI to advance early career research in East Africa: a strategic dialogue - An online event to explore how artificial intelligence could unlock new

It is vital to understand AI's limitations and the continued need for human thinking and creativity, both to get the most from the tools, and to use them most effectively in research. [...] “We want to centre academics and researchers from the majority world to listen to how they are experiencing these changes in research in their careers, and the ideas and ambitions they have for the future.” Jon Harle, INASP INASP's mission is to support research and knowledge systems across the Global South, so that they can produce the evidence and the ideas that the world urgently needs, and to. [...] The aim is to show how AI is and will continue to change the practice of research in Africa, and offer new ways to support researchers to develop their careers. [...] She noted that AIs are full of bias, based on the data they draw on, and that one way for users in East Africa to correct this is to use them more, and to contribute to the data. [...] Instead, we used the transcript to identify the key points made, replaying the sound file and correcting it where the meaning of a specific line was unclear and to check the quotes.