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Some of my blog articles, events, videos or books!

3 days ago

Autonomous and Intelligent Systems in Defense Applications - a Human-Decision Making perspective across the Lifecycle

This post is long overdue but important. Especially if you are interested in the governance of Lethal Autonomous Weapons (LAWS ) ...

Oct 17

Digital Infrastructure – the Foundation for AI

Over the last few weeks, I have been fortunate to listen to some interesting conversations on digital Infrastructure – cloud, hyperscaler...

Oct 10

Ratan Tata - In Memory

I woke up with the news that Ratan Tata left the world – and I was filled with great sadness. He was a role model for me - a young Dorab...

Sep 29

The Peace Nexus

Here I am with Jorge Moreira da Sliva, CEO of UNOPS The panel was moderated by Simon Mundy, the Moral Money Editor of the Financial...

Sep 29

Peace after Conflict: A Negotiated Process

It was great meeting Larry Sacks , Chief Development Officer, US International Development Finance Corporation at the Goals House UNGA...

Sep 26

Unique Ways to Conserve Nature

NATURE thanks to Katja Iversen , CEO of the Museum for the United Nations - UN Live and the great army of collaborators, is now...

Sep 19

Is AI Intelligent?

This article is really not about the AI system debate on whether AI will reach general intelligence - but it is about the poor awareness...

Sep 6

Council of Europe & Metaverse

Finally our full report is published! This is a project that the Council of Europe and IEEE / IEEE Standards Association | IEEE...

Sep 6

AI and Future Investments

So privileged to speak at the #DSIG Conference - AI for All: Empowering Responsible Investments. Our UAE leaders have tasked us to be...

Aug 13

Putting the Heart Back into Publishing

We have all been there – at times wondering if the reason we chose academia was getting lost with the publishing pressure. You look at...

Jul 16

Enabling governments to make meaningful decisions about AI

Here is my latest article on Apolitical: https://apolitical.co/solution-articles/en/enabling-governments-to-make-meaningful-decisions-abo...

Jul 8

Setting Guardrails for an AI-Enabled World

What does it mean to set guardrails in an AI-Enabled world? This will be a thought provoking panel. We will discuss the possibilities of...

Jun 19

Building Health Guardrails

AI can help when we have issues with geographical access or an inadequate number of health providers (thanks @Ricardo, who spoke about...

Jun 18

Open Source AI - What does it mean?

How many times have you heard about Open Source AI and assumed it is good? Open source means different things and it is important the...

Jun 16

Wisdom versus Data: Something to Consider in the World of AI

We are all familiar with the Data Pyramid, but I want to give you a different interpretation on it. Especially, as it is applied today in...

Jun 16

When Regulators are Unable to Manage Industry Cross-Overs

We are seeing more movement of products across industries and the inability of regulators to catch these. Take for example the case of...

Jun 15

Right to Childhood in an AI, gamified online world.

The right to childhood (and its an ambiguous one) would fall more likely under The Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), more...

Jun 8

Metaverse and Human Rights

If you are attending the EuroDIG - European Dialogue on Internet Governance 2024, please attend our panel jointly created with IEEE...

Jun 3

Future Government Skills

If you work in the public sector (or aspire to, or work with the government affairs department of a private sector company), this open...

May 11

Post-COVID

Post-COVID, life was supposed to get easier - we had onboarded AI and remote working/learning, embraced delivery services.....but we are...