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AI and Education

1. Pedagogy comes first - WHY are you using #AI , WHAT purpose is it for, HOW should you use it (hopefully responsibly) and WHEN should you use it. It is NOT a substitute. It is a tool to be used wisely. 2. Understand the skills loss that accompanies AI skills gains (and that associated with knowledge, learning and critical thinking). Think about educators workloads and the core purpose of their job (to educate not monitor or train AI outputs). 3. Understand the harms that AI

2 days ago

Global Governance of AI: Does Safe Passage (of AI Ethics) Become a Luxury Good?

Good way to start the New Year...with an analogy. Just uploaded my many papers to GoogleNotebookLM and it came up this analogy. I used it to come up with the picture (three prompts). Full disclosure - I don't know how much carbon, water, e-waste and other resources were used. Hopefully no copyrights were infringed but tells you what a murky area we are navigating. The Analogy is Below. "Governing AI is like managing a global ocean navigation system. While the lighthouse (regu

Jan 3

Human-AI Teaming

For organizations using AI and human teams - this may be of interest. If AI-human teaming is not aligned big problems appear. This is because the "skills" or "knowledge" AI and a human can bring differ and so do the speeds at which they work. I cannot stress enough how important that values are aligned. Values is a much used word, but fuzzy unless you know how to implement it and leaders regularly display values in actions. Here is the challenge for human-AI teams 🛑 AI is am

Dec 12, 2025

CAIDP Graduation (policy group)

I was accepted into Center for AI and Digital Policy in Fall 2024, and now have graduated three times - from The AI Policy Clinic, to a Team Leader, to writing Policies for the Global Majority team working under Brenda W. Maina. Ruofei Wang and with Waridah M. Samantha Khoo Su-Yen Shuvarthi Bhattacharjee @Muhammad Deckri Algamar Paola Gálvez Callirgos🌐 @Vivek Rana. These few months have been hectic. We have submitted statements to the governments of

Dec 3, 2025

Patents & AI

When you hear the word AI - what are you thinking of? Software, data or Hardware? Well of the three the most easy to get intellectual property rights is hardware. You can get a patent! Software is harder to do. Things that are not patentable are computer programs, business methods or rules for playing games. If you still want to protect your software, you will have to prove (and this means getting a good lawyer )that it is part of technical contribution: either utility

Nov 30, 2025

AI and industry-level safety: Recent Airbus issue

Cartoon Image: Gemini Nano Banana Updated 3 December 2025 It took 65 years for the airline industry to get acceptance from the masses – for 50 million people to adopt it. Meanwhile that time allowed the industry to deliver standards and regulations for safety. Yet behind the scenes a key change has been AI adoption – whether we are looking at airports or airplanes. Yesterday it was Airbus’s turn to recall 2/3 of it A320 family of jets being flown across 350 operators’ due to

Nov 30, 2025

Trustworthy AI in Dubai (for Healthcare)

We just held out third policy council in Dubai hosted by Prime Hospitals. So we were able to get doctors, nurses, administrators, IT and AI experts working in healthcare to participate. It was a lively participation, and the scenarios were insightful – the ability to manage AI failures and have the authority to override, the need for cross-functional teams before deploying AI, the need for an authority to vet AI and more. Soon we will be publishing our policy report based on

Nov 23, 2025

UNESCO's Ethics of Neurotechnology (a brief overview)

Finally, the UNESCO declaration adopted by member states on 5 November 2025 voted to adopt this instrument which will come into force on 12th November. It has huge implications for companies in this space. While late (as usual), this is welcome. Some countries have specific laws for neurorights like Chile, others mention neural data in their privacy laws. Some look at the technology itself for regulations so it is a complicated space. 1. Defines neurotechnologies as: devices,

Nov 7, 2025

Frontier AI – The Trade-Offs for Creating Global Benefits

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

Oct 22, 2025

The Not-So-Public Digital Infrastructure That Runs Your AI

👉 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

Oct 14, 2025