The Speaker, Abbas Tajudeen, stressed the need to have a regulatory framework in place for emerging technologies in the country.
Mr Tajudeen made the appeal in Abuja on Monday at the 2022/2023 Convocation Ceremony of the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies - University of Benin .
He also said that AI could create many benefits such as better healthcare, safer and cleaner transport, more efficient manufacturing, and cheaper and more sustainable energy. He said more critically, AI could deepen inequalities by automating routine tasks and displacing jobs. This, he said, was to leverage their potential and address issues of privacy, accountability, ethics, security and intellectual property.
He said despite government efforts and huge investment through the Universal Basic Education , the challenges remained substantial. Cognisant of these and related challenges, the speaker said President Bola Tinubu was committed to repositioning and revitalising the education sector to make it more suited to meet contemporary challenges.
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