Cross-posted from my personal notes. I'm sharing this because I think the EA/AI safety community needs to hear it, and because I've been living it.

I lead AI safety work in Nigeria. When I tell people this, the most common reaction is a polite pause , the kind that says: that's interesting, but is that really AI safety?

I want to argue that it is. And that the gap it represents is one of the most neglected problems in the entire AI safety ecosystem.

The Situation on the Ground

I'm based in Ibadan, Nigeria. I am part of the AI Safety Fundamentals: AI Governance cohort for Nigeria under AI Safety Nigeria, and I hold an AI Lead appointment under the ITU — the UN's agency for ICT. In my day-to-day work, I deploy AI systems in low-resource healthcare settings, build multilingual NLP tools for communities that global AI largely ignores, and try to translate AI safety discourse into something meaningful for African researchers and policymakers.

Here's what I observe from that vantage point:

The global AI safety community is, with very few exceptions, a Western conversation. Its canonical texts were written in Oxford and Berkeley. Its conferences happen in [...]

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Outline:

(00:42) The Situation on the Ground

(02:19) Why This Is an AI Safety Problem, Not Just an AI for Good Problem

(05:15) What Im Actually Doing About It

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