"The omnipresence of ChatGPT has forced a conversation about the value of academic work, the role of public universities and the perils of partnerships with private industry." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...
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Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo
Why they matter
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.
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What they're sharing
A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart. nytimes.com
State media control influences large language models | Nature nature.com
Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land theguardian.com
Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object & Tool amacad.org
Platform Obscurantism - Limn limn.press
CASP — Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy | University of Cambridge casp.ac
Conspirador Norteño | Substack conspirator0.com
computerweekly.com
Reimagining Open Source and Openness in AI: Co-Creating Responsible Technological Futures arxiv.org
arxiv.org
How will AI sycophancy change us? Early signs are not encouraging | Arwa Mahdawi theguardian.com
The global tech boom is over. American AI companies won restofworld.org
Articles & links
"...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...
AI Weekly's analysis
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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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"About two-thirds of upcoming datacenters, which typically require a large amount of water to operate, are set to be built in places that have been among the driest in the country over the past year." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
"...W. E. B. Du Bois insisted that technological change could not be understood apart from relations of power, particularly those structured by race and empire." www.amacad.org/publication/...
"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…
Deeply concerning report from the Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy: "...both factions of Boko Haram use frontier AI, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI, and DeepSeek, to assist in combat and day-to-day operations." casp.ac/reports/ai-e...
"...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...
"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…
Our work advances methodological approaches in AI governance by demonstrating how participatory futures methods can surface plural visions, actions, and research priorities that extend beyond dominant, largely corporate, narratives. arxiv.org/abs/2606.07764
Grateful to be part of this collaborative research paper, "Reimagining Open Source and Openness in AI: Co-Creating Responsible Technological Futures," that will be presented next week at the ACM FAccT Conference in Montréal! @facct.bsky.social arxiv.org/pdf/2606.07764
"An asteroid took the dinosaurs out. Now it’s looking increasingly likely we’re going to be wiped out because a cohort of rich losers keep being told 'You’re absolutely right!' by ChatGPT." This last sentence was everything 🤣 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Because international investors continue to view India — and many other developing countries — as a source of low-cost labor, he said, they continue to treat it that way." restofworld.org/2026/us-ai-i...
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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!
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.
I pray I never fall off as hard as Colin Kaepernick, to where I start pushing AI slop to maintain my livelihood 🙏🏾
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.
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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