469pp., colour graphs, hardback, CRC press, Boca Raton, 2025
ISBN: 9781032833712
This book examines the key challenges of emerging and least industrialised countries in the Global South, explains how AI can drive these economies to achieve inclusive development and shared prosperity, and outlines how countries can swiftly prepare to adopt, develop and implement AI across all sectors.
Arthur G.O. Mutambara is Director and Full Professor at the University of Johannesburg's Institute for Future Knowledge, where he also serves as Head of the Decentralised Artificial Intelligence and Control Systems Research Group. He has been a Research Scientist at NASA, a Visiting Professor at MIT, and a Visiting Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. He is also the Former Deputy Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, and the author of eight books.