{"id":45354,"date":"2026-09-13T14:12:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T12:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=45354"},"modified":"2026-09-13T14:12:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T12:12:56","slug":"sa-president-backs-chinas-proposal-for-brics-ai-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-president-backs-chinas-proposal-for-brics-ai-ecosystem\/","title":{"rendered":"SA President backs China\u2019s proposal for BRICS AI ecosystem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">South Africa\u2019s (SA) President Cyril Ramaphosa says SA supports China\u2019s proposal to develop an Artificial Intelligence (AI) ecosystem for BRICS countries.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(0, 0, 0)\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He has emphasised co-operative, safe, and inclusive frameworks for artificial intelligence within BRICS, aligning with broader Global South technology sharing.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ramaphosa was speaking during the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, India.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cSA accordingly proposes that BRICS should establish an international mechanism for the independent scientific evaluation of AI. This should be backed by meaningful human control principles, mandatory reporting, reporting of serious incidents, and there have been serious incidents already. Progressively stronger safeguards such as capability increases and simultaneous investment in sovereign AI capacity for developing economy countries.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p>\u2014SABC\u2014<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":42332,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-45354","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Ramaphosa was speaking during the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, India.","published_date":"","news_description":"Ramaphosa was speaking during the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, India.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45356,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45354\/revisions\/45356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=45354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}