Dr. Moody Amakobe

At the turn of the twentieth century, the mechanical tractor arrived on American farms. Farmers who embraced it multiplied what they could produce. Those who clung to hand-plowing in defense of "proper farming" fell behind, not because they were less diligent, but because they were measuring the wrong thing. We are at an identical crossroads in doctoral education today. Generative AI, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and their descendants are not a passing disruption. It is a categorical shift in the...

So, I've been thinking about AI and the universe. Not in the way most people are thinking about AI right now, the jobs, the regulations, the existential risk headlines. Deeper than that. More fundamental. What if the emergence of artificial intelligence isn't primarily a technological story? What if it's an evolutionary one? That question is what drove me to develop a philosophical framework I call Emergent Participatory Cosmism. I've spent some time building it into a full academic paper,...

The Role of Indigenous Languages in Training African-Centric AI Models Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping how societies interact with technology, from voice assistants and search engines to automated translation and smart healthcare systems. Yet, as Africa embraces this digital transformation, a critical gap persists: the absence of indigenous African languages in the core of AI systems. Most AI tools today are trained primarily on English, French, and other...