Critical Theory in AI.
Frontier models read as social substrate — not products, not miracles.
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Folio I · Trinidad & the Machines
Reading the machines slowly, by hand.
Dr. Fazal Ibrahim Ali — Cambridge-trained, Trinidad-born. Writing on critical theory in AI, the founding of Omeros AI, and a small book called Education for Liberty.
Est. Trinidad, 1974
A small island, a long sentence, a slow machine.
Issue 01 / Folio IFeatured Work
Three things, in order.
Education for Liberty.
A small book about what a child needs to learn so the next machine becomes a freedom, not a fence.
Explore Education for LibertyA note before reading
I am not building AI. I am not selling chips. I am thinking with the machines, against them, around them — from a small island that has always read the world more carefully than the world has read it.
— Fazal Ali, on opening the new site, 2026.
The writer
Trinidad · b. 1974
FAZAL ALI
Origin
Born in Trinidad. Read at Cambridge. Mentored by Sen, Rees and Borysiewicz.
Twenty years of work that lived inside lecture rooms — now stepping out from behind the lectern.
Today
Writer · Scholar · Founder of Omeros AI.
A Caribbean reading of intelligence — and a contribution from Trinidad to a conversation usually written elsewhere.
“I have grown braver. A little more adventurous.”
Cambridge · Trinidad · 2026
More about meThe Monograph · 2026
Foreword · Epilogue
A Monograph · FIA
Education
for Liberty.
A small book about what a child needs to learn so that the next machine becomes a freedom, not a fence. Written from Trinidad, read against the global conversation on AI and the future of the human curriculum.
Foreword
Sir George Alleyne
M.D., F.R.C.P., F.A.C.P. (Hon), DSc (Hon)
Epilogue
Archbishop Joseph Everard Harris
C.S.Sp.
Range
Four threads, one practice.
Selected · 2024 — 2026
Education for Liberty.
What a child needs to learn so the next machine is a freedom, not a fence.
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Omeros AI.
A Caribbean reading of intelligence — named for Walcott, kept close to the sea.
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From the West Indies.
A contribution from Trinidad to a conversation rarely written from here.
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From the Journal
Recent pieces.
Elsewhere
@thefazalali
Field notes, drone footage, carnival, and the occasional book.
TEMA, Tobago — drone over development
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Saut d'Eau, Paramin — north coast
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Digital transformation, digital Caribbean
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Ålesund, Norway — back to basics
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Point Radix, Mayaro — Ben Deloraine reserve
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Mayaro, Bodow — Caribbean calm
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Preparing for a roast fish feast
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Sargassum off Mayaro — covid tranquility
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Cannes Dance Festival
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Edinburgh
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The Letter · No. 01
A letter, now and then.
Occasional dispatches — new journal entries, notes from the book, and quiet reports from Omeros AI. No noise. No tracking. Read once, leave anytime.