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AI is reshaping what we mean by employment, and we are confusing livelihoods, jobs, and tasks (work), which is a mistake. Unemployment means we are unable to support ourselves and our families at a minimum standard of living that gives us access to health, education, security, shelter, and other necessities, as well as the social and cultural rights needed to develop our personalities. This shift has accelerated post-pandemic, driven by the rapid onboarding of AI and the indu

I have been looking at the systemic effects of crises for a long time. It was my PhD topic. Most crisis have spillovers we do not foresee. They can quickly become a polycrises like what we saw during the pandemic. During the pandemic, a health crisis quickly became an economic, educational, logistics, trade, travel, and food security crisis.  👉 This crisis spillover will affect not just multiple countries globally, but industries, global economy, and further weaken the socia

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)  just realeased a report reiterating what I have been saying for a long time. Testing AI systems in alpha and beta modes is not equivalent to real-world deployment challenges. You must monitor and measure for governance post-deployment which is challenging given the scale and complexity of adoption! We often see mission drift beacuse of values and commercial interests conflicting, or contract subclauses (especially militar

Image was generated based on the paper by Google NotebookLM My colleagues and I recently wrote a book chapter titled "Early Warning Systems: Whispers in the Global Corridors" to help people understand the Middle East. If you are in the wrong corridor - you hear the wrong message. You need to be invited to the right rooms and this takes trust. Politics and power do not build trust - they manipulate people and agendas. Time, patience and actions build trust. But trust is so ten