Lagos: Mr Oluwaseun Dania, Managing Director of Alpha Greek Technologies, has called for greater collaboration among academia, regulators, and the creative industry to ensure Africa shapes its own Artificial Intelligence (AI) future. Dania said this in a statement on Friday, highlighting the potential of AI to amplify creativity across the continent.
According to News Agency of Nigeria, Dania spoke at a World Bank and Eden Venture Group forum during a session on ‘AI for Entertainment Media Content: Advancing Impact and Research’. He emphasized that Africa’s creative sector already influences global culture, and AI can further enhance this by providing reach, scale, and economic opportunities. AI tools, he noted, could support various aspects of content creation, including scriptwriting, visual effects, editing, audience forecasting, and rights protection, thereby enabling African creators to produce globally competitive content more cost-effectively.
At the forum, Dania unveiled an ‘Indie Studio in a Box’, a compact AI-powered production model designed to enable small creative teams to manage studio operations using minimal resources. This innovation integrates AI-assisted script development, virtual pre-visualization, automated post-production, multilingual dubbing, and digital distribution. He described this as a transformative shift for creators and the economy, as a complete African studio can now operate from a laptop.
Dania also introduced the A.I.R. Framework, an ethical guideline aimed at ensuring responsible and transparent use of AI in creative industries. This framework is built on three pillars: attribution (ensuring consent and credit for creators), integrity (mandatory watermarking of AI-generated content), and residuals (automated compensation through smart contracts).
He urged governments, big tech companies, universities, and creative industry players to partner in tackling algorithmic bias and strengthening AI education. Dania proposed reforms to film, media, and computer science curricula to include AI literacy and the establishment of research labs to study representation and fairness in machine learning systems.
Additionally, he called for the creation of a Creative AI Regulatory Sandbox, to be led by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) in collaboration with other government agencies. This sandbox would allow stakeholders to safely test emerging AI tools within real production environments while ensuring ethical standards, inclusivity, and scalability.