"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...
Who's Who of AI
Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo
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
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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
Conspirador Norteño | Substack conspirator0.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
AI in the Global South: Opportunities and challenges towards more inclusive governance | Brookings brookings.edu
China Is Providing AI That’s Literate in Africa’s Languages foreignpolicy.com
AI can predict disaster, but it can't save you » Yale Climate Connections yaleclimateconnections.org
doi.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.
Read full analysis →
"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/...
"...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...
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...
Here's the actual article if you're interested in reading: www.brookings.edu/articles/ai-...
"...Africa’s future is currently being written in languages that Western companies are not learning to speak." foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/08/c...
"...the barrier to saving lives is rarely data accuracy, but the absence of the policy infrastructure required to act on it." yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/07/ai-c...
My latest piece for Science Magazine examines the burgeoning landscape of AI diplomacy in Africa, surveying the history of science diplomacy stemming from the Cold War, and current participation by African governments within international AI cooperation. doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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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!
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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