Research | Ola Adu

Ola Adu

I'm an engineer building for the advancement of humanity.

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CUNY Research Foundation

I worked full-time at the Research Foundation of The City University of New York.

Speculative urbanism: AI that lets cities rehearse their futures. Generative models and digital twins in place of static blueprints.

Education

Graduated high school at 14.

A.S. Computer Science at 18.

Harvard.

Projects

Research

Things I'm trying to understand before they become companies.

Autonomous organizations, AI agents, space logistics, civilization-scale infrastructure, energy abundance, robotics, artificial general intelligence, machine economies, ARO / GEO, future interfaces.

The Emergence of Machine Labor Markets. An adversarial investigation into whether AI-completed work will become standardized and financialized like oil, electricity, and cloud compute.

JOHN DOE: Zero-Raw-Context AI Orchestration. A privacy-preserving coordination system that routes tasks across frontier models while minimizing raw private context exposure.

World Models for Hospitality. A research agenda for agentic venue operations, framing hospitality as a partially observable system with a continuous world model as the intelligence layer for humans, agents, and robots.

Writing

What I've concluded.

Before the Screen. Why the future belongs to tools that preserve the original energy of thought.

Held Hostage by Your Own Coherence. The danger of AI memory isn't that it forgets who you are. It's that it remembers one version of you too well.