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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

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  

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

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

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,

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

I am hosting, with my collegues from The Digital Economist, a design thinking workshop for UNGA 80 Science Summit. While it is online...

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

Honored to be accepted to the Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP) competitive program as a Member of the CAIDP AI Policy Group....

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

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 are attending the EuroDIG - European Dialogue on Internet Governance 2024, please attend our panel jointly created with IEEE...

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...

My new book chapter is out - Sovereign Wealth Funds and Soft Power. Often existing literature underestimates the long-term strategy of...

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,...