Dr. Samuel Segun is a Senior Researcher at the Global Center on AI Governance and a Research Fellow at the African Observatory on Responsible AI and the AI Ethics Group at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, University of Pretoria. He is also a Research Fellow with the Research Group on Africa, Philosophy, and Digital Technologies (APDiT) at the Institute of Intelligent Systems, University of Johannesburg.

He previously served as AI Innovation & Technology Consultant for the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, leading the development of a Toolkit on Responsible AI Innovation in Law Enforcement, an INTERPOL-led project. Additionally, he is the Lead Consultant for Arkenstone Advisory and a technical reviewer for the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), contributing to the Guidelines for the Development of a National Strategy on AI in Security and Defence.

Dr. Segun is an Instructor in the Artificial Intelligence (AI), Ethics, and Policy in Africa Certificate Program at the University of Cape Town. He has published over 15 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals and has delivered keynote talks, speeches and lectures at major conferences on AI safety, data and computational ethics, algorithmic audit, and responsible AI practice. He is also the editor of several works, including: AI Ethics & Governance in Africa, Selected Issues in the Ethics of AI, Conversations on African Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness and AI.

Dr. Segun has received several prestigious fellowships, including: UNDP West African Youth Integrity Fellowship (2013), Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI) Fellowship (2016), Global Excellence Stature Fellowship for Doctoral Research, University of Johannesburg (2018). In 2021, he was appointed as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stellenbosch University School for Data Science and Computational Thinking, where he led research on computational and data ethics.

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