AGI Strategies

person

Chinasa T. Okolo

Brookings fellow; African Union AI strategy contributor

Brookings technology fellow who worked with the African Union on developing the AU-AI Continental Strategy. Named one of Time's 100 most influential people in AI in 2024.

current Fellow, Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institution

Strategy positions

Governance firstendorses

Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimes

Contributed to the AU-AI Continental Strategy. Argues AI governance in Africa cannot be imported wholesale from OECD frameworks.

AI is not Africa's savior. Avoiding technosolutionism in digital development requires AI governance rooted in African contexts.
articleAI is not Africa's savior: Avoiding technosolutionism in digital development· Brookings· 2024· faithful paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Chinasa T. Okolo's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

  • Abeba Birhane

    Abeba Birhane

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Mozilla Foundation senior advisor; AI ethics researcher

  • Adam Tooze

    Adam Tooze

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Columbia historian; Chartbook newsletter

  • Adrian Weller

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Cambridge professor; Alan Turing Institute fellow

  • Adrienne LaFrance

    Adrienne LaFrance

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    The Atlantic executive editor; technology critic

  • Adrienne Williams

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Former Amazon warehouse worker; AI labour activist

  • Akash Wasil

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Encode Justice; AI policy advocate

Record last updated 2026-04-25.