yep. while concentration has many advantages, the challenge is that 'centralization' and 'Orwellian' tend to rhyme
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Technology Geopolitics Business Strategy Direct Distribution
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The connections between advanced technology, geopolitics and your business strategy has never been so tightly coupled. Reason to ensure you are on direct distribution for the OODA Daily Pulse.
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E/accs advocates for acceleration and AI promotion
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E/accs need to promote the use of acceleration and ai.
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Transparent Indian Tech Model Without Hypergrowth Burnout
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Things i like here – Transparency based marketing
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Air Canada’s AI Chatbot Refund Policy Creates Legal Complications
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They were heavily investing into AI, according to the Ars Technica article https://
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Community Transparency and Accountability in AI Publication Practices
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And it is kind of a bad look to not go back to the community with what was done before publication.
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Colonialism and Community Involvement in Local Language AI
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So, given the history of colonialism in working with what Steven Bird calls local languages (and many others call endangered languages) and given Google's general extractive approach to "knowledge", you should always foreground community involvement in all comms. >>
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Technology Promotion Despite Fair Use Legal Concerns
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It's not really about the debate then: it's agreed to be prima facie infringement and may be considered Fair Use in certain limited cases. It's about promoting the technology despite it being questionable in order to legitimise it…
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AI Ethics and Historical Exploitation in Museums
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Do you consider this tweet, which you hid, to be "insulting or aggressive"? It raises great points about AI in the context of exploitation and historical abuses — a critical debate to be had publicly for museums. https://
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AI Tools Users Bear Responsibility for Outputs and Actions
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Just like any tool used by humans in the past, individuals or institutions using AI tools should be responsible for the outputs or actions produced by such tools.