AI / ML

Negative Mechanistic Interpretability Result: Strong mediators do not determine transitions between semantically salient states 15 July, 2026 | Carringtone Kinyanjui 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 maps, or mediator-dependent subspaces. Results show relation structure is present […]

Old Fictions, New Skins: Evaluating the Manipulative Capabilities of LLMs in Healthcare 29 June, 2026 | Roger D. Odipo Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly piloted in African healthcare contexts, raising concerns about their potential to manipulate users in high-stakes settings. In a randomised experiment, we examined the manipulative capabilities of two publicly available models,

Compression: Why Haki Cares About Knowledge Representation 11 June, 2026 | Carringtone Kinyanjui 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 billion dollar telcom company that

The Procurement Gap 24 April, 2026 | Martin Wagah 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 ensured Kenyan ownership in the technology sector. On 22 August 2023, the Cabinet Secretary for

Haki Legal: Building Legal AI in Kenya 20 March, 2026 | Martin Wagah 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 of law but anchored to nothing. The Judiciary’s Committee

The Blueprint: Doing AI Right in Africa 21 February, 2026 | Martin Wagah 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 and polycentric structure can be deployed as leverage.

Rainmakers and Neural Networks 23 January, 2026 | Carringtone Kinyanjui 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 so sorry. This is an

The Polycentre: AI in Africa 24th January 2025 | Martin G. Wagah 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 currents of success need not always be a disadvantage. Sometimes, it is a strategic asset to be deployed.