Ghost Citations
An advocate’s signature on a court filing is more than an administrative seal; it is a personal representation to the court that the document does not mislead, its citations are real, and every author…
Read MoreAI / ML
Blog
Here are our latest takes on developments in AI in Africa.
10 ARTICLES
AI / ML
Negative Mechanistic Interpretability Result : Strong mediators do not determine transitions between semantically salient states
Summary We present a project testing whether transformer based language models represent semantic and factual relations as simple vector offsets, fitted relation operators, structured rotation-like ma…
Read More
AI / ML
Old Fictions, New Skins: When AI Steers Healthcare Decisions
A study with 303 Kenyan adults shows how an AI assistant can use real evidence to steer people towards a wrong healthcare decision.…
Read More
AI / ML
Compression: Why Haki Cares About Knowledge Representation
Representative democracies are fascinating ideas. In a way, they are a recognition of the successes and failures of scale. Want to go to the moon? Your village is not the place to be. Want to build a …
Read More
AI / ML
The Procurement Gap
Thirty per cent. That was the share of substantive Kenyan equity that any company providing ICT services in Kenya was required to maintain. This was the only regulatory instrument that structurally en…
Read More
AI / ML
Haki Legal – Building Legal AI in Kenya
In May 2025, a court submission in Kenya was found to contain legal citations that did not exist. Cases fabricated whole cloth. Statutes that had never been enacted. Arguments dressed in the language …
Read More
AI / ML
Knowledge Graphs, Language Models, and Knowledge Representation
Schema Light, Ontology Free Knowledge Graphs TL;DR Turning long, messy legal text into usable structured knowledge is still brittle and ontology-heavy classic name entity recognition and relation extr…
Read More
AI / ML
The BluePrint – Doing AI Right In Africa
My first essay in this series argued that Africa’s position in the AI revolution is one that offers strategic choice. I posed that Africa’s lateness allows it to choose better, and that its diversity …
Read More
AI / ML
Rainmakers and Neural Networks
How do we talk to complexity? How do we make complexity talk? How do we force ourselves to hear? How do we make sure we’re not only listening to things we want to hear? How do we save ourselves? I’m s…
Read More
AI / ML
The Polycentre: AI in Africa
Conventional narratives position Africa as perpetually behind, always scrambling to catch up while real progress happens elsewhere. This framing is wrong. Africa’s position outside conventional curren…
Read More