What I learned mapping the AI safety ecosystem — and what’s missing for Africa by tjriliwan

From Au­gust 2024 to May 2025, I worked with AI Watch, col­lab­o­rat­ing with a global team to map the AI safety land­scape — re­search­ing or­gani­sa­tions, tools, and prod­ucts, and build­ing a database of who’s do­ing what in the field.The work in­volved time-sen­si­tive liter­a­ture re­views, ex­tract­ing de­tails on labs and safety ini­ti­a­tives (from OpenAI to smaller re­search groups), and struc­tured data anal­y­sis.What sur­prised me most: how con­cen­trated the field is in the US/​UK/...