ALT Contemp technoscience is rife w/hype—inflated claims that rapidly propagate in favor of the next “new thing.” While scholars often strive to debunk & dispel hype, Tanzanian technologists working in health care face a different challenge: navigating hype. As these technologists embark on new projects in machine learning & other forms of AI, contending w/hype becomes crucial. These actors operate on the margins of global technoscientific worlds, aiming to create novel African futures that promote technological sovereignty. To do so, they must grapple w/hype and its polit econ. For anthropologists, merely transforming these technologists’ experiences into an ethnographic object won't teach us much; a much more illuminating task is to examine how their work can provoke us to refine & transform our own knowledge practices. This is esp important because their innovations can seem both inspiring & dispiriting, both entrenched in & opposed to the troublesome technological global order.