Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo

"...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

"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...

A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart. nytimes.com

“It will be up to civil society to remind elected leaders that AGI/ASI is far from a certainty, and that we shouldn’t base policy decisions on the assumption that it is inevitable, or even desirable.” www.techpolicy.press/what-policym...

What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI techpolicy.press

"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...

Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land theguardian.com

"There is no neutral encounter with AI. AI is about power, and such is used to control the aesthetics of certain groups in society." www.techpolicy.press/how-ai-hype-...

How AI Hype Helps Render Women Invisible techpolicy.press

“There is no established path showing that today’s AI systems will surpass the smartest humans, much less a scientific basis for calculating the likelihood that such systems will destroy humanity.” thebulletin.org/2026/09/how-...

How the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big business thebulletin.org

"...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/...

Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object & Tool amacad.org

"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

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

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...

CASP — Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy | University of Cambridge casp.ac

Read my commentary in Rest of World here: restofworld.org/2026/south-a...

South Africa joins the global resistance against American data centers restofworld.org

"...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

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 🙏🏾

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.” 🫡

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

The Nigerian president released an AI-generated video to address the country on Independence Day this past Thursday 🤦🏾‍♀️ Many people don’t know that when the President of Gabon released an AI-generated video after not being seen for a few months in 2019, a coup happened shortly after.

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.

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.

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!

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