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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


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
Military as International Business
📣 Our new paper is out - "Corporate Military Activities and Key Frontiers in International Business Research", with my co-authors ( Tazeeb S. Rajwani Christopher Hartwell Tao Chen ) - it has just been published in the Journal of World Business by Elsevier . 🙏 Thank you to the amazing editors Ajai Gaur and Daniel Andrews and our anonymous reviewers. As with most papers, it is a journey that began with a chance meeting in Academy of International Business (A
Nov 7, 2025


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, 2024


Autonomous Avatars & Digital Me
According to Kozuka, “There can be three possible approaches to the law of avatars. They are to treat an avatar either as a device...
Mar 26, 2024


AI Enabled Business - Our Book Launch
Yesterday was special, we launched our new book, AI Enable Business: A Smart Decision Kit at MBR School of Government. We started this...
Mar 6, 2024


Leadership: Surviving the Storm
Leaders are often considered founders, top management, heads of ministries, department heads, or board members, the stewards of an...
Aug 30, 2023


Crisis Management: Stages
A lot of my early research work began in crisis management. Whether you are a manager or a policy maker, crisis management means: (1)...
May 26, 2023


Building High Governance AI Systems
*parts of this blog are extracted from my recent talk and my new book (above), coming soon I prefer to refer to Artificial Intelligence...
Apr 14, 2023


Why Carbon Offsetting May Not Be Enough.
By 2025, our consumption of AI through data management, deploying hardware, training software, and crisis and cybersecurity interventions...
Apr 3, 2023


The Grey Areas of AI Decision Making
AI decision making is complex. It is a mixture of human and machine decisions. A machine does not train itself, nor does it decide its...
Feb 3, 2023


Planet Positive: A Better Future
Source: Pixabay I volunteer as a one of the committee members of the IEEE SA Planet Positive 2030 Standards Working Group led by Dr....
Jan 14, 2023


Leadership in the New Year
Moving into 2023 will not be easy. The earth and its people are still fragile. The pandemic energy crisis, war, recession, refugee...
Dec 31, 2022


Human-AI Teamwork
In the near future, the probability we will all be working with artificial intelligence (AI) to get our jobs done is a certainty. Yet we...
Oct 16, 2022


AI and Sustainability: The Role of HR
AI is the beating heart of the metaverse. AI is driving massive changes in the structure and processes we use to run the government....
Sep 30, 2022


Tipping points: looking at the sustainability of XR (metaverse)
I was fortunate to give a keynote along with luminaires like HE Eva Kaili, EU Vice President, Prof. Herman Russchenberg, and Pro-Vice...
Sep 27, 2022


AI-Management Decision Making: Explanation and Transparency
Image: cocoparisienne (Pixabay) One of the challenges we face in AI-Management Decision Making is how we can make decisions more...
Aug 1, 2022


Advancing Technology for a Sustainable Planet
Excited to take part as a panelist during this workshop 25-26 July, by IEEE SA in partnership with the Stanford Institute for...
Jul 17, 2022


Mission Drift: The Downside of Being Agile
I am a huge proponent of agile government or agile organizations. The only way this is possible is through deliberate strategic...
Mar 16, 2022
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