Morocco is emerging as a leader in Africa’s adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), leveraging its strategic location and initiatives to address local challenges in agriculture, healthcare, and education. However, its contributions are often overlooked in global AI conversations, dominated as they are by Western perspectives. With the EU’s new AI Act aiming to set global standards, critical questions arise about its impact on countries like Morocco: Does it foster collaboration or impose constraints? This study explores Morocco’s AI ecosystem, examining how local knowledge and priorities integrate with global regulations and proposing inclusive frameworks to empower innovation in the Global South.