Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo

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Researcher with public evidence across AI business, AI research, Compute & infrastructure.

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AI Researcher, Policy Strategist, & Technorealist. Founder, Technēculturǎ. Columnist, Science Magazine. Cornell Computer Science PhD. TIME100 AI. Forbes Under 30 AI. Critically examining global equity in AI. 👩🏾‍💻: www.chinasatokolo.com 📩: bit.ly/contactCTO

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"...LLMs exhibit a stronger pro-government valence in the languages of countries with lower media freedom than in those with higher media freedom." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

State media control influences large language models | Nature nature.com
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  • Chinese state-media content appears in typical LLM training sets at roughly 41 times the rate of Chinese-language Wikipedia.
  • Across 37 countries, models prompted in the local language produce more regime-favorable responses in countries with lower press freedom.
  • A pretraining experiment with just 6,400 state-scripted documents pushed an open-weight model to pro-government responses nearly 80 percent of the time.
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"Just as early modern alchemists dreamed of transmuting base metals into gold, today’s AI evangelists promise to turn data into value. Both rely on the enchantment of transformation. Both conceal the bodies, both human and mineral, on which that transformation depends." limn.p…

Platform Obscurantism - Limn limn.press
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I recently provided commentary to Rest of World regarding Mark Zuckerberg’s “AI For Everyone” manifesto, focusing on Meta’s overstated economic benefits of data centers. restofworld.org/2026/mark-zu...

“It’s laughable”: Global AI experts challenge Zuckerberg’s “AI for everyone” restofworld.org
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  • Zuckerberg's August 10 'Future for Everyone' letter pitched wider AI access across countries and companies as the path to a positive AI future.
  • Chinasa T. Okolo (Black in AI, Technecultura) says Meta has 'grossly overstated the economic benefits of its data centers,' with jobs concentrated in construction.
  • Global South researchers flag low-resource languages, shared devices, patchy connectivity, and thin regulatory oversight as gaps the letter's 'everyone' glosses over.
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"...this network of U.S.-themed accounts does not appear to be run from within the United States at all; Facebook’s Page Transparency feature indicates that some, and possibly all, of the accounts are actually operated from Bangladesh." www.conspirator0.com/p/life-in-us...

Conspirador Norteño | Substack conspirator0.com
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"The problem with this argument for deregulation for the sake of innovation is that relevant counterfactuals are never considered. For example, what are the costs of deregulation? How many people will lose access to legal recourse when AI harms them?" www.computerweekly.com/op…

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"The metaphors we humans use in framing LLMs can pivotally affect not only how we interact with these systems and how much we trust them, but also how we view them scientifically, and how we apply laws to and make policy about them." www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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Recent commentary

While pruning my Google Scholar profile, I noticed a "hallucinated" citation of an actual article of mine in an undergraduate dissertation at a university in the Czech Republic 🙃 Google needs to develop a way for authors to flag these issues to maintain the integrity of our profiles!

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Honored to have been appointed as the inaugural Policy Lead for Black in AI! Over the next few months, I'll be establishing the strategic foundation for our emerging Policy & Civil Society Pillar by increasing our engagement with policy issues core to our mission.

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I pray I never fall off as hard as Colin Kaepernick, to where I start pushing AI slop to maintain my livelihood 🙏🏾

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Interviewed with congressional offices over the past week, and hopefully, my biggest selling point is that I will bring a more objective understanding of AI capabilities to inform the legislative process. In one interview, I outright said: “I don’t believe in the concept of existential risk.” 🫡

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Placed within my first choice Congressional office! Looking forward to what I’m sure will be an exciting year working on AI policy 🏛️🤖

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I’ve made it back to Nigeria for Deep Learning Indaba! It’s been nice catching up with everyone so far in Lagos, and I look forward to what should be a busy, but exciting week ahead.

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I'll be spending the next year as a Legislative AI Fellow within the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship! After researching and engaging in global AI governance over the past 4 years, it’s a privilege to have a rare opportunity to support AI legislation in Congress.

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LinkedIn now lets you block pages from commenting on your posts and lets you label posts as “AI slop” to hide them from your timeline. Once they finally make an option to see only posts from my connections instead of mainly seeing posts they’ve reacted to, I’ll be set!

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Transitioning from researching AI governance over the past four years to now being directly embedded in AI politics will be quite interesting!

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