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Nigeria’s National Artificial Intelligence Strategy is a Bold Step Towards a Legally Binding Artificial Intelligence Policy. Here’s What Progress on it Looks Like So Far.
Picture credit: The Federal Ministry of Communication, Innovation and Digital Economy (FMCIDE) By Olive Arinze Published June 22nd 2026 Nigeria’s National Artificial Intelligence Strategy (NAIS), published in September 2025, is an ambitious attempt at strategically roadmapping the country’s current standing on Artificial Intelligence development and future priorities with the technology. It grounds itself in several…
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A Proposal for Evaluating AI-enabled Health Aid Tools in African Contexts
Photo by Jametlene Reskp on Unsplash On the 3rd of May 2026 I submitted a proposal for the Center for Artificial Intelligence Security and Access (CASA) African AI Safety Prize competition. This submission centered on developing a set of test questions that could be used to test any AI-enabled tools used in local African health…
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Functional Emotions in a Frontier LLM- Recommendations for Leaders
by Olive Arinze, April 23rd 2026 In a new study by Claude researchers, they posit that their AI model Sonnet 4.5, and likely other similar frontier models have concepts of emotions that affect the output they produce in conversations with humans. To study this, the researchers listed 171 different words that describe human emotions like…
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United Nations Informal Stakeholder Consultation for the Global Dialogue on AI Governance: Building AI Governance for All
On March 18, 2026, I participated in the United Nations Informal Stakeholder Consultation on the Global Dialogue for Artificial Intelligence Governance. The meeting supported the work of the newly appointed UN Scientific Panel on AI and served as a prelude to the Global Dialogue on AI Governance, scheduled for July 6–7, 2026, in Geneva, Switzerland.…