Nigeria could lose about nine million routine jobs to artificial intelligence by the end of the decade unless it urgently builds its own AI technologies and equips workers with new digital skills, according to a new report that warns the country risks becoming a permanent consumer of foreign innovation.
The study argues that while AI is expected to create roughly 11 million new technology-enabled jobs, those opportunities will only materialise if Nigeria shifts from merely adopting artificial intelligence to developing indigenous AI models, datasets and computing infrastructure.
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The warning is contained in ‘Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Nigeria: A Macro and Micro Economic Review’, authored by Debola Ibiyode, founder and executive director of the AI Empowerment Foundation and chief executive of CarbonAI, and conducted by OLGNova alongside AI in Action Now.
The report identifies banking, public administration and clerical services as among the
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