Image was generated based on the paper by Google NotebookLM My colleagues and I recently wrote a book chapter titled "Early Warning Systems: Whispers in the Global Corridors" to help people understand the Middle East. If you are in the wrong corridor - you hear the wrong message. You need to be invited to the right rooms and this takes trust. Politics and power do not build trust - they manipulate people and agendas. Time, patience and actions build trust. But trust is so tenuous, it can...

We need a systems-level lens on responsibility. This is not a simple equation of benefits and risks but a deep understanding of what could go wrong despite guardrails and how tenuous these guardrails are. Some of you are following the Anthropic  and DoD 'discussions".   Guardrails are about the power of "other" stakeholders. LLMs are broke but raise huge funds so guess the power is with investors, not the LLM companies themselves. Tech companies notional earning raise and fall with a social...

The infographic helps explain our recently published paper. At the heart of AI governance is the individual and the family. Most of the studies we reviewed did not mention the place of study (and so bias was not taken into account - data can be biased). And most studies focus on data (not hardware, which also raises many governance issues). We identified  14 themes and 104 governance challenges associated with the metaverse, based on a review of 101 papers. It is worth checking it out  here ....