Facial recognition has led to the wrongful jailing of a Tennessee grandmother, scanned 2.5 million faces & wrong algorithm in Essex. 50 van rollout across England and Wales. On who it archive was built to watch, why biometric risk management & AI governance frameworks.
As the UK parliamentary inquiry, the EU AI Act, and 52 US state bills converge on AI in education, one question remains unasked: whose knowledge did the archive exclude before the system was trained? On algorithmic bias, decolonising AI, and what archive correction requires.
The UN asked the world to name the gravest crime against humanity, and exposed the limits of the equality the world governance system claims to uphold, and the limits of equal recognition in a system that still cannot fully reckon with its own foundations.
Unpacks the Myth of Neutrality, arguing that so‑called impartial systems encode institutional priorities while presenting their decisions as technical facts.
Explores how security language legitimises expanding surveillance infrastructures, reframing observation as protection rather than power.
Examines how institutions use procedure as a myth of legitimacy, asking us to trust the architecture because the proper process was followed.
Shows how digital surveillance expands quietly through security narratives and invisible authority, turning monitoring infrastructures into everyday governance.
Maps the cartography of AI power, tracing how infrastructures and narratives position Africa as the first quarry for algorithmic colonialism.
This essay uses the Infrastructure Principle to show how talk of AI sovereignty can mask new dependencies on foreign compute and cloud infrastructures in Africa.
This essay uses the Infrastructure Principle to show how talk of AI sovereignty can mask new dependencies on foreign compute and cloud infrastructures in Africa.