Dr. Samuel T. Segun is a Senior Researcher at the Global Center on AI Governance. He holds a PhD in Computational and AI Ethics from the University of Johannesburg, an MBA from the University of the People, and a Master and Bachelor from the University of Calabar. His research focuses on AI safety, data and computational ethics, algorithmic audit, and responsible AI practice.
He is the author of the book New Conversations on the Problems of Identity, Consciousness and Mind (Springer, 2019); and editor of AI, Ethics and Policy Governance in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2024); Conversations on African Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence (Springer, 2023); Selected Issues in the Ethics of AI (Springer 2022).
Dr Segun is a Research Fellow at the African Observatory on Responsible AI, and the AI Ethics Group at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR), University of Pretoria. He currently serves as a Consultant to the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism on the project AI and Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (PCVE). He previously served as the AI Innovation & Technology Consultant for the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), leading the development of a Toolkit on Responsible AI Innovation in Law Enforcement, an INTERPOL-led project. He was also a reviewer for the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), 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 received several prestigious fellowships, including: the UNDP and Transparency International West Africa Youth Integrity Fellowship (2013), Regional 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.
Journals Articles
- Adams, R., Alayande, A., Aneja, U., Junck, L., Gupta, A., Parkes-Ratanshi, R., Gaffley, M., Segun, S.T., Archegas, J.V., and Adeleke, F., (2025). Mapping the Potentials and Limitations of Using Generative AI Technologies to Address Socio-Economic Challenges in LMICs. verixiv.org
- Segun, S.T. (2024). Are Certain African Ethical Values at Risk from AI? Data & Policy.
- Segun, S.T. (2021). Critically Engaging the Ethics of AI for a Global Audience. Ethics & Info Technology. 23, 99–105.
- Segun, S.T. (2021). From Machine Ethics to Computational Ethics. AI & Society. AI & Society. 36, 263–276.