The Astana International Forum 2025 #AIF2025, set for May 29–30 in Astana, Kazakhstan, is a global platform addressing today’s toughest challenges amid rising polarization. Under the theme "Connecting Minds, Shaping the Future," it will feature panels, interviews, and networking
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AI Systems Will Know Us Better Than Ourselves
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Social media captures what we post and consume. ChatGPT captures what we think and feel. As Sam Altman said at TED yesterday — the upload happens bit by bit. Layer in AR glasses and always-on ambient assistants, and these AI systems will know us better than we know ourselves.
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Digital Divide Decision Threatens Vulnerable Populations Privacy
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I cannot emphasize enough how vile and self-serving this decision is. Many people who do not have internet or are not comfortable with X or computers in general will die or otherwise suffer as a result of this heinous decision. It is also a huge invasion of privacy.
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AI Revolution Impact on Services Sector Spending
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I hate when you predict things I don't want but I realize you have a good track record on these things. Seems like services sector will be hit with double whammy of less money to spend on services and less need due to AI revolution.
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Sam Altman Announces Powerful OpenAI Open Source Model at TED
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Sam Altman PDG d'OPENAI au TED aujourd’hui :
— VISION IA (@vision_ia) 12 avril 2025
« Mes enfants ne seront jamais plus intelligents que l’IA. »
« On a eu une réunion hier soir sur notre politique open source. On va sortir un modèle open source très puissant, proche de la frontière. »
Sur la collecte de données par… https://t.co/tbaDF1JQjdSam Altman PDG d'OPENAI au TED aujourd’hui : « Mes enfants ne seront jamais plus intelligents que l’IA. » « On a eu une réunion hier soir sur notre politique open source. On va sortir un modèle open source très puissant, proche de la frontière. » Sur la collecte de données par
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DOGE Cuts Impact Tourism and Economic Decline
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By my math, the drop in tourism *alone* will more than offset the total (and in many cases careless) cuts from DOGE. We will wind up with a poorer country that works less well with higher prices and less freedom that fewer people want to visit that makes fewer technological
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Jack Ma disappearance: Tech leadership under state control
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Example. This old video of Jack Ma is making the rounds and it’s worth listening to again.
— 🖤 Christine (@christinelu) 12 avril 2025
But don’t forget the part where the Chinese government disappeared him for a few years and he now only resurfaces in the public when Beijing says to. pic.twitter.com/Z7Dh0W2n3nExample. This old video of Jack Ma is making the rounds and it’s worth listening to again. But don’t forget the part where the Chinese government disappeared him for a few years and he now only resurfaces in the public when Beijing says to.
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Engineering expertise transfers to policy circles lacking technical understanding
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A forthcoming Complex Systems episode includes a thematically similar export of ideas from an engineering-heavy community to policy circles, which find themselves nearly bereft of anyone who can explain and understand technology to a degree appropriate to its importance.