About this episode

Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo discusses the gap between AI development and policymaking, focusing on Global Majority communities.

Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo is the Founder and Scientific Director of Technecultura and a consultant for the United Nations and the World Bank. She talks with Scott about the yawning gap between AI's pace of development and policymakers' ability to understand it. She also discusses what it means to do AI governance research with a focus on Global Majority communities that are too often left out of the conversation.

People in this episode

Host: Scott Hanselman

Guest: Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo

Topics covered

• AI governance
• policymaking
• Global Majority communities
• technology development
• social impact

Keywords

• AI
• governance
• policymakers
• Global Majority
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Technecultura, United Nations, World Bank

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