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PhD Journey
October 13, 2025
AI and the New Hegemony of Language: A Warning Against Digital Imperialism
Olasunkanmi Arowolo
Researcher, Lecturer, Coach, and Mentor in Journalism.
Large language models (LLMs) are trained on vast datasets dominated by American content. This includes news outlets, academic texts, entertainment media, and online forums. As a result, the English that emerges in AI systems is overwhelmingly American in tone, spelling, idiom, and punctuation.
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Artificial Intelligence is often presented as a neutral force, a tool that brings efficiency, knowledge, and connectivity, but the reality is far more complex. AI is never built in a vacuum. It carries within it the assumptions, biases, and cultural orientations...
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