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Paper short abstract

The paper seeks to examine the Socio-Economic impacts of AI in the context of North and South divides and how neo-colonial dynamics and narratives impacts on the role of IA between the North and Southern states in Nigeria.

Paper long abstract

The emergence of AI and the drive for transformation in several facet of life for rapid change in the global north has been evident in science and technological advancement, ecosystem, health and general welfare has been recorded. The necessity of the adoption of AI points to challenges on Nigeria’s development sectors at several segments. It is often to assumed that the current AI practice is a tutelage of the global north hence tends to strengthen the narratives that global south stands less to benefit from the processes. The paper seeks to understand the north and south inconsistency and lopsided access to AI practice between the northern and southern states in Nigeria.

The justification arises due to global south are lagging behind including media bias, neo-colonial legacies. Even though Nigeria may appear to be performing satisfactorily in terms of AI usage is still having setbacks in different forms including lack of skilled professionals and required systems for progress and growth is poor across board in different sectors.

In development sectors, AI algorithms are revolutionising practices in medical image analysis and personalised medicine, finance sector is embracing AI for tasks including fraud detection and algorithmic trading. Countries like Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, USA, the Netherlands, and Singapore are at the forefront of integrating AI into transportation systems. These trends begs for strategies to understand the new dynamics in developing countries, with focus on southern and northern Nigeria in particular