Vukosi Marivate
@vukosi
Chair of Data Science at University of Pretoria, South Africa. Co-Founder LelapaAI. #NLProc PhDCS Rutgers, BScEE-MsEE Wits University. Changing the World @DeepIndaba @MasakhaneNLP. Made with ❤️ Tshwane Lab Data Science for Social Impact
Day 0 of the UN Global AI Dialogue and ITU AI for Good Summit. Sharing the afternoon with my mentor Prof Tshilidzi Marwala. Catching up and discussing our shared future as a continent. @tmarwala
In my inaugural lecture (2025) I posit that GenAI is increasing our Language Dev Debt & increasing it's interest rate (increasing extinction) This paper shows it <> Artificial intelligence is creating a new global linguistic hierarchy (Occhini et Al) arxiv.org/abs/2602.12018
I’m pleased to be speaking at the AI for Good Global Summit 2026 in Geneva from 7-10 July. As the leading United Nations’ platform on #AI, the Summit brings together global leaders, innovators and experts to explore how AI is being applied across society. aiforgood.itu.int/summit26/
See/Search whose work tech companies are using to train their generative-AI models. Search for an author, musician, YouTube channel, screenwriter, or actor—for example, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation <> AI Watchdog - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/category/ai-...
I am speaking this Thursday 11 June at 5 PM at Wits. Join us before the big game. Exploring Ourselves Through AI – with Prof Vukosi Marivate <> Wits Alumni universityofthewitwatersrand.my.salesforce-sites.com/events/event...
AI for Local Impact Podcast - Ep 7: Making Space for Africa’s Languages in AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IJF...
Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses www.theverge.com/tech/930447/...
The last six months in LLMs in five minutes simonwillison.net/2026/May/19/...
🌍 A Win for Our Collective Village The news has been slowly sinking in, and to be completely honest, I have battled with feeling worthy. The Presidency of South Africa has announced that I am a recipient of the Order of Mapungubwe in Silver—the nation's highest recognition for excellence.
It was an honour to deliver a guest lecture for the DSTI Budget Vote 35 on "Harnessing AI for Inclusive & Sustainable Socio-economic Development." I shared our vision for the future. The official recording is now live! 📺 Watch the full talk here: youtu.be/qGBi9KWJ-QE 🧵👇 @dsfsi.bsky.social
Honoured to be presenting a public lecture on Artificial Intelligence (titled "Harnessing AI for Inclusive and Sustainable Socioeconomic Development") on Friday before the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation Budget on Friday 15 May 2026.
Some points might be debatable, but Synology has been taking many decisions against users. Especially as many home server and small offices invested in them through their purchases <> Synology isn't the best NAS anymore www.howtogeek.com/synology-is-...
This is worth a read and why for a few years we have been championing license awareness and use. Just because it's online doesn't mean it's open data. <> Licensing as a Barrier to the Usability of African Language Datasets - Lanfrica Blog lanfrica.com/blog/licensi...
My comments on the South African Draft AI Policy <> SA introduces draft AI regulation policy youtu.be/Ix0nWWQYrMs?...
The Social Edge of Intelligence - The Ideas Letter www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-so...
‘To Bring In More Voices And Perspectives’: The South African Professor Refusing To Let The Continent Be A Mere Spectator In The AI Race www.forbesafrica.com/current-affa...
Poignant podcast as I just spent a few days walking past the Paul Robeson centre at Rutgers (one my home bases during my PhD) Bless This Mess (This American Life adapted) pca.st/episode/5d2c... Our Ancestors Were Messy - Paul & Essie Robeson (original) pca.st/episode/47c3...
Speaking this morning at Cornell University <> Global AI Initiative Talk: What Do Our Benchmarks Actually Measure? Evaluation Challenges for African Language AI globalai.ai.cornell.edu/events/
Agents of Chaos > Our findings establish the existence of security-, privacy-, and governance-relevant vulnerabilities in realistic deployment settings arxiv.org/abs/2602.20021
Speaking today at the University of Michigan AI in Research Symposium in Ann Arbor. Will be on the closing panel and it's great to finally visit MIDAS.
Large Language Models Memorise Their Training Data open.substack.com/pub/dontstea...
The Mac Pro died so Apple silicon could live www.macworld.com/article/3100...
In a Driverless World, Who Loses and Who Wins? pocketcasts.com/podcast/frea...
On the MacBook Neo, and the dreams it has just unlocked -> “This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold samhenri.gold/blog/2026031...
💀👻 Literally stealing money from the hands of the most needy. <> Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment, BBC finds www.bbc.com/news/article...
Read G20 the South Africa Summit: Leaders’ Declaration Of importance in the screenshot of the AI part of the declaration. We had a lot of hard work at the Digital Economy Working Group and AI Task Force, congratulations to everyone. dirco.gov.za/g20-south-af... #G20SouthAfrica
A major part of computational history unearthed<> Unix v4 Tape Found | discuss.systems/@ricci/11550...
Back in Cairo after 20 years. Attending and talking at AfriCHI 2025 (1st AfriCHI since the inaugural one in Nairobi). African AI won't build itself, and it won't be built without Human Computer Interaction researchers!
The missing slide from my Keynote this morning at African Research Universities Alliance Biennial Conference @ARUA_News inspired by Tshwane Mayor @nasiphim You can watch the keynote here youtube.com/live/kalkMuv...