Does Tanzania have the intellectual, social and spiritual resources to cope proactively with the encounter with artificial intelligence? Yes.
But that is a yes that depends on an understanding of the roles of scarcity, illogic and chaos in the emergence and sustenance of resilience, vitality and creativity. We have all six of these attributes in abundance in Africa and in Tanzania. That is what might just carry us through whatever is ahead of us in this brave, new world.
