Nairobi, May 27 -- According to the April 2025 AI Talent Readiness Index report, produced by Qubit Hub and Qhala, Kenya ranked fourth in Africa with a score of 49.70.

The report, which assesses a country's capacity to develop, retain, and deploy artificial intelligence talent across the pillars of digital skills, data and infrastructure, as well as government readiness, further recommended that each signatory state should consider training at least 15 percent of its population on AI awareness by 2028.

Yet beneath this ambitious goal lies a gap, between AI adoption and AI literacy, between the use of these AI systems and developing the competence required to understand their risks, ethical implications and governance requirements. Which ...