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The recent withdrawal of South Africa’s draft national artificial intelligence (AI) policy by the minister of the department communications and digital technologies (DCDT), Solly Malatsi, was an extraordinary and embarrassing saga.
The document meant to govern AI had been compiled with the assistance of generative AI, and contained, on the minister’s own account, “various fictitious sources in its reference list”.
In this edition of Business Law Focus, host Evan Pickworth interviews Ashlin Perumall, a partner at Baker McKenzie in South Africa and head of the IP tech division, about what caused this strange state of affairs and what should happen next.
Listen to the conversation:
