“Mtseteka lives with her ailing husband and two grandchildren in Chisemphere village, about an hour’s drive from the capital Lilongwe. It is a cluster of small, mud-brick houses surrounded by fields.

She has never owned a smartphone or a computer, but her crop was saved by an artificial intelligence bot designed to help subsistence farmers like herself. It’s called Ulangizi AI. 

‘Ulangizi’ means advice in Chichewa. It was developed by Opportunity International, a U.K. nonprofit, to answer farmers’ questions through text and voice, as well as diagnose problems found in farmers’ photos of crops and livestock. It has been trained on government guidelines and traditional know-how, and can be delivered through WhatsApp.”

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