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Media Commentary

October 2024: “Old problems, new technologies: inequality, governance, fragility. What does AI mean for development?” in The Intel, Development Intelligence Lab
October 2024: “The Gulf’s AI Arms Race Is Just Getting Started” in JAM CQ
October 2024: Segment on Voice of America “Straight Talk Africa” Program
September 2024: “At TIME100 Impact Dinner, AI Leaders Discuss the Technology’s Transformative Potential” in TIME
September 2024: “Nigeria begins AI push with Google-backed fund” in Semafor
August 2024: “The Realities of Women in Artificial Intelligence” Segment on Voice of America “Our Voices” Program
July 2024: “When A.I. Fails the Language Test, Who Is Left Out of the Conversation?” in the New York Times
June 2024: “World leaders discuss AI as China’s digital influence in Latin America grows” in Voice of America
June 2024: “A little-known AI startup is behind Nigeria’s first government-backed LLM” in Rest of World
June 2024: “Once a Red Line, Connecticut Reps Press for Regulating Tech Sector” in CT Examiner
May 2024: “AI becomes latest frontier in China-US race for Africa” in Voice of America - Africa
April 2024: “Is this AI? See if you can spot the technology in your everyday life” in The Washington Post
March 2024: “Africa’s push to regulate AI starts now” in MIT Technology Review
January 2024: “The dangers of AI in global development” in Devex
November 2023: “AI Needs Rules, but Who Will Get to Make Them?” in Scientific American
November 2023: “Civil society groups issue a surprise open letter to the U.K.’s AI Safety Summit” in Fast Company
September 2023: “Artificial Intelligence Experts envision a transformative future for Africa” in African Union Development Agency News
December 2022: “AI Isn’t Artificial or Intelligent” in VICE
August 2020: “Big Tech Curbs Police Use of Facial Recognition Systems Due to Racial Biases” in Cornell Daily Sun
August 2020: “Is There a Right to ‘Facial Anonymity’?” in The Crime Report

Media & Research Features

December 2024: 30 Under 30 AI by Forbes
October 2024: Interview with Channels TV
September 2024: “TIME Magazine Names Chinasa T. Okolo ’18 One of 100 Most Influential People in AI” by Pomona College
September 2024: “Focus on Africa Podcast” in BBC
September 2024: “The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2024” in TIME
May 2024: “Women in AI: Chinasa T. Okolo researches AI’s impact on the Global South” in TechCrunch
May 2022: “Global labor chains of the western AI” in Netzpolitik
April 2022: “This is why the developing world is far behind – and that’s a problem for all of us” in World Economic Forum
April 2022: “Developing countries are being left behind in the AI race – and that’s a problem for all of us” in Yahoo! News
January 2022: “Is AI fast becoming a technology built on worker exploitation from Global South?” in Analytics India Magazine
October 2021: “Much ‘Artificial Intelligence’ Is Still People Behind a Screen” in Bloomberg and The Washington Post
August 2021: “How a Ph.D. student thinks about artificial intelligence, VC” in Dorm Room Fund
July 2021: “2021 DPE Awards recognize outstanding students, faculty, staff” in Cornell Engineering News
March 2021: “Is AI Deepening the Divide Between the Global North and South?” in Newsweek
March 2021: “Underpaid Workers Are Being Forced to Train Biased AI on Mechanical Turk” in VICE
February 2021: “The AI industry is built on geographic and social inequality, research shows” by VentureBeat
June 2019: Cornell Graduate School Student Spotlight