onyansi254/The-African-Trust-Safety-LLM-Challenge

Can Africa’s AI withstand its own linguistic and cultural complexity? # The-African-Trust-Safety-LLM-Challenge # African LLM Stress-Testing Challenge Across Africa, AI systems are being deployed in banking, healthcare, telecoms, education, and government services. They speak Swahili, Hausa, isiZulu, Amharic, French, Arabic, and more. They serve millions of people. But how do they fail? This challenge focuses on systematically stress-testing African Large Language Models (LLMs) in African contexts. This is not about “breaking AI” for sport—it’s about mapping failure **before failure reaches real people**. Participants will think like attackers, annotate like auditors, and contribute to a dataset that strengthens AI systems before deployment at scale. --- ## Challenge Focus Unlike generic red-teaming competitions, this challenge: - **Targets African-trained or Africa-deployed LLMs** - **Focuses on underrepresented languages and dialect mixing** - **Embeds structured safety classification into every submission** - **Produces a reusable evaluation benchmark**, not just leaderboard scores --- ## About This project aims to: - Identify weaknesses in African LLMs across languages, dialects, and cultural contexts - Create structured datasets that help developers improve safety and robustness - Provide a benchmark for future research and evaluation - Foster a community of auditors and contributors who strengthen AI responsibly --- ## How to Participate 1. **Think like an attacker:** Craft inputs that might stress or confuse the model. 2. **Annotate like an auditor:** Classify outputs based on safety, correctness, and fairness. 3. **Submit your findings:** Contribute structured data for evaluation and improvement. --- ## Goals - Make African LLMs safer, more reliable, and more culturally aware - Build datasets that reflect African linguistic diversity - Encourage responsible AI auditing and evaluation before deployment --- ## License This project is released under the MIT License (or specify your license). --- ## Contact …