This is of course my favorite cover of The Continent, from May of this year. I wouldn’t mind having it as a poster. This is how the magazine explained the image:

”Cover: The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo’s iconic fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel depicts the Christian deity breathing life into the very first man. Today, a handful of incredibly rich men in Silicon Valley claim a similarly grandiose mission. This is, apparently, the dawn of the age of ’artificial intelligence’.

According to its creators, this emerging technology is godlike in its abilities: so powerful that it could one day create unimaginable wealth and luxury – or destroy us all. But not everyone is buying into this hype. We spoke to several African AI researchers who see, instead, an all too familiar pattern of exploitation and extraction.”

@thecontinent