"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
Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land theguardian.com
State media control influences large language models | Nature nature.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
China Is Providing AI That’s Literate in Africa’s Languages foreignpolicy.com
Research - Small is beautiful, but scale gets the job done: Pathways for AI industrialisation in Africa. globalcenter.ai
Articles & links
"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...
"...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...
"...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...
"...Africa’s future is currently being written in languages that Western companies are not learning to speak." foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/08/c...
"...the notion that African governments today are inherently incapable of a society-wide industrial revolution because of their political and institutional challenges is not entirely true." www.globalcenter.ai/research/sma...
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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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