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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

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

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

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

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,

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...

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

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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...

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...

According to Kozuka, “There can be three possible approaches to the law of avatars. They are to treat an avatar either as a device...

Yesterday was special, we launched our new book, AI Enable Business: A Smart Decision Kit at MBR School of Government. We started this...

Yesterday I attended the Technology and Public Purpose (TAPP) Summit 2023, a project under Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and...

*parts of this blog are extracted from my recent talk and my new book (above), coming soon I prefer to refer to Artificial Intelligence...

By 2025, our consumption of AI through data management, deploying hardware, training software, and crisis and cybersecurity interventions...

Day 1-5: MBRSG (2023) Caption: Brandenburg Gate (Berlin) Germany is known for its economic power but only 29 Fortune 500 companies come...

Source: S.Herman/F. Ritcher from Pixabay Data fuels AI. The business of selling personal data can be overt or covert, and the challenge...

Some Lessons from the Past: The 1970s-90s A new communications protocol was established called Transfer Control Protocol/Internetwork...

This is a small series of blog on the history of governance in the "metaverse". It is inspired from a previous paper I was part of that...