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Media Commentary
- 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
- 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