ILINA Program

AI safety with the subaltern in mind

[George Gor @ggomondi]

Countries are growing more concerned about the harms AI poses to their populations. As Mythos' capabilities have warned us, we could see exploitation of critical infrastructure societies depend on.

Yet, African countries are paying little attention to this. @MarieIrad makes the case for how they can build capacity to monitor such impacts and learn from harms that are increasingly manifesting. Hopefully, this data can help prepare for the more serious, plausibly devastating scenarios ahead.

[Marie Iradukunda @MarieIrad]

Very pleased to see this out! If you are working on impact (and/or incident) monitoring & reporting anywhere, I would really appreciate feedback & I'm open to chatting more about this!

[ILINA Program @ILINAProgram]

In a new Research Report, our Research Associate @MarieIrad highlights how key stakeholders can improve the monitoring of AI impacts and incidents in Africa. Read the full report here: https://t.co/JGYUl8R7lW

[ILINA Program @ILINAProgram]

In collaboration with our partners UCT AI Initiative, AI Safety South Africa, and Action Lab Africa, we recently prepared and submitted written feedback for the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance. You can read our joint written submission here: https://t.co/srOdGvGR85

[George Gor @ggomondi]

ILINA continues to build a solid talent pipeline for Africans working on AI safety at the frontier. Questions abound in this space and more people on the continent should be tackling them!

[ILINA Program @ILINAProgram]

After a rigorous application and assessment process, we're pleased to introduce our 2026 ILINA Junior Research Fellows. We look forward to working with them closely as they grow in AI safety. Read more about them on our website: https://t.co/NxSqJf3TdM

[ILINA Program @ILINAProgram]

Read our Research Editor's newly published piece:

[Faith Gakii @FaithGaks]

New piece!

In my latest for @iacl_aidc, I argue that we should spend more time than we currently do asking how anthropocentric and ecocentric approaches can work together to protect animals under constitutions worldwide. Read here: https://t.co/GLnICVGX6r

[ILINA Program @ILINAProgram]

Our Junior Research Scholar @md_wachira will be presenting at the University of Cape Town this week ⬇️

[ILINA Program @ILINAProgram]

We were pleased to host @kofiemeritus of Mozilla Foundation at our office recently. We're looking forward to future collaboration.

[Kofi Yeboah @kofiemeritus]

Technical research output in AI Safety is growing across Africa and @ILINAProgram is leading this domain with some incredible cohort of research scholars. Thanks for hosting me, @CecilYongo and @ggomondi, to learn more about your work, especially how it intersects with compute.

[Kofi Yeboah @kofiemeritus]

Technical research output in AI Safety is growing across Africa and @ILINAProgram is leading this domain with some incredible cohort of research scholars. Thanks for hosting me, @CecilYongo and @ggomondi, to learn more about your work, especially how it intersects with compute.

[ILINA Program @ILINAProgram]

We're excited that our Program Manager, Natalie Gitau, is now also Operations Assistant at the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative. In this new role, Natalie will be working with some of the best operations professionals in the field to support a range of AI safety organisations

[George Gor @ggomondi]

AI harms make the news more often than we notice. Systematically tracking and sharing this data is still early, and it is genuinely difficult. But it is possible - and it is one of the tools that can help policymakers prevent and respond to serious incidents.

Very grateful to @ILINAProgram for the sharp engagement and questions during the WiP session today on this topic!

[ILINA Program @ILINAProgram]

Today we hosted a Work in Progress session in which @thefuturesoc's AI Security Policy Associate George Gor presented his research and thinking about AI incident monitoring.

[Cecil Yongo @CecilYongo]

Super grateful that my work is being featured by what I consider to be the world's leading AI and law think tank, whose team members have supported me for years now 🙌🏾

[Institute for Law & AI (LawAI) @law_ai_]

As AI systems take on increasingly autonomous roles, courts will increasingly face a difficult question: How should negligence law respond when AI causes harm?

@CecilYongo, Research Affiliate at LawAI, tackles this question in a new research article published by the Journal of Tort Law.

Abungu challenges a growing assumption in legal scholarship: that the opacity and unpredictability of AI systems make harmful outcomes inherently unforeseeable. Instead, he argues that these features are often the result of design choices made by AI developers, who prioritize performance over interpretability.

The article proposes a clear framework for US courts:
• Preserve existing doctrine where foreseeability already supports plaintiffs
• Reform duty-foreseeability to advance more categorical, plaintiff-friendly reasoning
• Retain fact-sensitive analysis for breach-foreseeability and proximate cause-foreseeability to avoid overreach

The result is a more calibrated approach to foreseeability; one that reflects the distinctive risks posed by autonomous AI agents without abandoning negligence law’s core structure.

Read the abstract and download the article PDF at https://t.co/HQNqvotRkr.

[Cecil Yongo @CecilYongo]

My new article on U.S. negligence law and the foreseeability of AI agent harms is officially lead paper of Vol. 19 Issue 1 of the Journal of Tort Law. Also now completely available open access (no sign up/ institutional access required): https://t.co/mCz4XuDheU

[Cecil Yongo @CecilYongo]

Figuring how to determine legal responsibility for AI harms is one of our most urgent questions. Happy to share that my new paper on how U.S. negligence law should deal with liability for harms caused by autonomous AI agents has now been published by the Journal of Tort Law 😁

[Cecil Yongo @CecilYongo]

Tomorrow our flagship ILINA seminar kicks off, this time with all my awesome team members involved in crafting the syllabus and facilitating the sessions. Very excited! https://t.co/yLOtUlKrnm

[ILINA Program @ILINAProgram]

On Friday March 20, we hosted a fireside chat featuring AI Safety Policy Analyst Abra Ganz in conversation with our Research Associate Marie Iradukunda. We're thankful to all those who signed up for and attended the session.

[ILINA Program @ILINAProgram]

Today we had an oratory skills workshop run by AI Safety Policy Analyst Abra Ganz and Dr. Colin Donnelly, Associate Professor at @UniofOxford. Team members received training on how to build and give an oral policy-related presentation.