Rated Research Professor on STI Development, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa

Talk Title: Managing With Creative Innovation the AI for Sustainable Developmentand Digital Technology Revolution With Moral And Intellectual Intelligence to Guide all Humanity to live in one World Community with full ethics, Justice , Peace and SecurityEthics, Justice Digital Technology Revolution

Prof. Mammo Muchie

Prof. Mammo Muchie is a DST/NRF Rated Research Professor in Innovation Studies at the Institute of Economic Research on Innovation (IERI), Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa, where he holds the SARChI Chair in Innovation Studies. He is a globally recognized scholar in Science, Technology, and Innovation for Development (STI4D), having earned his DPhil from the University of Sussex. 

Prof. Muchie is the founder and Chief Editor of the African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development (AJSTID), established in 2009. He is also an editor for several other journals, including Innovation and Development (Routledge) and the Ethiopian Electronic Journal for Research & Innovation Foresight (Ee-JRIF). He has helped establish key continental research networks such as AfricaLics, the African Globelics Doctoral Academy, and ANSOLE, and he serves as a scientific board member of Globelics and Medalics. 

With affiliations across Africa, Europe, and Asia—including Oxford University, Sussex University, Jiaxing University, and universities in Ethiopia—Prof. Muchie has held visiting and permanent academic positions globally. He has authored over 365 publications across development economics, innovation studies, and international political economy. 

His lifelong commitment is to promote a free, united, and innovative Africa through research, capacity-building, and transformative knowledge production. 

Abstract

The current digital technology can change the way people live, work and interact with one another. The world is in the transformational technology era with computational systems, networks and sensors, artificial intelligence, robotics, biotechnology, synthetic biology, bioinformatics, 3-D printing, block-chain, human-machine interface, biomedical engineering and regenerative medicine; more computing power, speed, sensing, communication and conversation with machines and new inter-human relations and tolerance. Applying and aligning the AI and digital technologies to create wellbeing for people and nature is much needed to innovate now. A new AI and digitally anchored global science, technology transformative Innovation system is essential.
The African Philosophy of ubuntu can provide the ethical foundation of AI to prevent the cybersecurity attack landscape that is undergoing a metaphasis of unprecedented scale. Cyber-attacks are no longer a matter of “if”, but rather “when”. Ubuntu is essential to help with the collection of big data to use for decision making process through artificial intelligence. AI data collection applications are based on neural networks, machine 2 learning, deep learning and Natural Language Processing algorithms. AI is now surpassing human beings as the smartest and most capable life forms on this planet. Ubuntu philosophy is necessary as each new generation of AI moves faster; it is critical to achieve high quality ethical standard by collecting and applying digital big data to be findable, accurate, interoperable and re- useable. AI is now defining our time as the age of machines to machines for inter-human interactions.
Ubuntu philosophy application can facilitate digital technology to excavate and harness the vast community indigenous knowledge to include the excluded rich knowledge, spirituality and values. Ubuntu philosophy will promote the public oversight of the explosive technology to create opportunities and not dangers by controlling all digital cybercrime. Descartes’s what ‘I think therefore I am’ must be replaced with the ubuntu ‘I am because we are’, to make the opportunities prevail over the dangers to save the universe with AI.