THE FUSE

Growing up in Minna, North-Central Nigeria, Samuel Segun dreamed of building sci-fi robots. But after studying philosophy, his focus shifted from Terminator-style apocalypses to the immediate dangers of everyday algorithms. From developing Afro-ethical AI frameworks to crafting algorithmic auditing guidelines for INTERPOL and UNICRI, Segun tells JOHN ADOYI in this episode of My Life in Tech that the most urgent AI safety challenge is not a futuristic machine uprising, but fixing the systems running right now.