Philosopher & Digital Humanist
Augustine Akintunde
Farinola
Doctoral Researcher at the University of Alberta working at the intersection of AI Ethics, Digital Humanities, and Corpus-Based Experimental Philosophy.
What I Do
Research
Investigating AI Ethics, Large Language Models, and Digital Humanities methodologies with a postphenomenological lens. Co-investigator on a Government of Canada funded project on migration discourse.
PublicationsTraining & Workshops
Delivering workshops on Voyant Tools, text analysis, AI prompting, data visualisation, and digital humanities methods to researchers, academics, and professionals.
Book a SessionDigital Projects
Building tools at the intersection of humanities and technology — from LLM-powered text analysis platforms to knowledge graphs, dashboards, and interactive learning applications.
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All PostsReading YouTube Comments as Immigration Data: Methodological Notes
YouTube comment sections are noisy, anonymous, emotionally charged — and full of authentic testimony about immigrant ex…
RAG Is Not Retrieval: What Researchers Get Wrong About AI and Knowledge
Retrieval-Augmented Generation is reshaping how AI systems answer questions. But there's a persistent misunderstanding …
Why AI Systems Should Be Designed with Indigenous Language Communities, Not Just for Them
When digital tools are built without input from the communities whose languages and knowledge systems they are meant to…