Nigeria, Nov. 19 -- Renowned journalist and PREMIUM TIMES Publisher Dapo Olorunyomi on Tuesday outlined the pros and cons of the incursion of social media platforms and artificial intelligence (AI) into various spheres of human endeavours. He also spotlighted the roles journalists, scholars and policymakers should play to harness the full potentials of the technological platforms and tools for public good.

Mr Olorunyomi stressed the evolving yet fundamental impacts of the technologies on information flow and accuracy, democracy, governance, knowledge base, and mass mobilisation. Beyond that, he said they encode assumptions of what human beings, while setting off "data colonialism" concerns

He gave the remarks while delivering the 2025 F...