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Governments work with wicked problems which have certain characteristics as seen the image above. Hence when you get a solution like “let us use frontier AI”, the outcomes may not be as simple to get for many reasons.   1.        Tradeoff between Private Profits and Public Value Governments need to be inclusive. Sometimes efficiency may be at the cost of creating jobs or the cost of creating a societal network based on physical interactions. Every time we make a decision choi

👉 There are 1.48 million km of submarine cables (30X the circumference of the Earth) connecting countries to move DATA 👉 Example 99% of data to the outside world in UK is carried through 60 cables 👉 95% of data still move by cables (sea or land) 👉 Most of this infrastructure is owned by the private sector (99%) 👉 A disruption of a cable leads to slow internet - take 2008, 2 Mediterranean cable were cut affecting 14 countries (100% of Maldives and 82% of India) 👉 Few pla

Google Gemini generated Image Is it just me or am I being constantly asked to give my mobile number, scan a QR code, put my email, put my...

Google Gemini AI entities (bots, agents, semi-autonomous software) outnumber humans worldwide in terms of internet traffic. And many are...

We held our first policy council using design thinking on Trustworthy AI in Healthcare in San Fransisco, hosted by Databricks. The...

Published: July 19, 2025. Source: Image by Gerd Altmann  from Pixabay The Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution is a geopolitical race...

One of the things we do not have enough discussions about is AI provenance.  Provenance is the place of origin .  The current narratives...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

The State of Lebanon recently reported that its internet provider, Ogero, was under a 10-day cyber attack. A digital expert noted that...

I listened to two panels: "Competition in the market for foundation models” and “The role of data in development models.” The...

#EU has the #AIAct (first in the world). #USA has recommended the hiring of a Chief AI Officer for every Federal Agency. But, right now,...

It is the age of LLMs or GenAI - but can these machines think? Or reason? The answer is NO. Here is why. These examples above show you...

Microsoft has found a unique way to get around antitrust competitive laws. Wow they have lawyers working overtime in this space (and lots...