Associate Professor, University
Contributor, Platypus, The CASTAC Blog
About Mpho
I am computer science and AI governance scholar whose academic work focuses on African language technologies, particularly tone, pragmatics, and the linguistic complexity of low-resource languages. Her research advances decolonial and feminist approaches to AI, examining how language, data, and power shape the design and governance of intelligent systems.
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Automating Language, Losing Relationality: Feminist Reflections on African Language AI
A grandmother pauses before answering a child. The meaning of her words lies not only in the words themselves, but in tone, shared history, the relationship between speaker and listener, the setting, and even the silence that precedes the response. None of these become part of the training data for today’s large language models (LLMs). (more…) (read more...)