"CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT MY PHONE!” is a common reaction when people hear about Vipassana. However, to my surprise, giving up the phone was the easiest part. Once it's gone, you rarely miss it. I guess it reaffirms that we didn’t evolve to incessantly stare at a rectangular device.
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World Risk Poll: Global Sentiment on Artificial Intelligence Mapped
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World Risk Poll: Mapping Global Sentiment on #AI
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AI Ethics: Ensuring Technology Serves Humanity Effectively
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Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing our world, but how can we ensure technology serves humanity? For the latest research and policy insights on AI, subscribe to Stanford HAI newsletters. Our next issue goes out this Sunday:
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Automating Management Writing: Executive Blind Spot on AI Impact
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I have talked to a lot of executives buying Microsoft Copilot for their firms. Not one seems to have considered what it means to suddenly automate the vast majority of management writing without training or reconsidering the meaning of the work. From my book, Co-Intelligence:
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AI Impact on Business: Industry Leaders Discuss Future Trends
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Industry leaders from Snorkel AI, Honeywell and more delve into the impact of AI on business, areas it has yet to touch, and the trends we can expect in the future. Recorded in September 2021, this conversation remains relevant today.
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Mapping Systems Accountability Beyond Bias Mitigation Attempts
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Yes, I agree. And these systems will always be thus. AND knowing more about these systems, reporting on them, mapping the details, let's us connect chains of culpability, which is worth doing and shouldn't be conflated with attempt to e.g. 'de-bias the slaughter system'
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Advertising and Consumer Manipulation in American Society
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@LJamesMcGuigan
's Selling the American People! Which I was reminded to pull to the top of the stack c/o this excellent episode of TMK: https://
soundcloud.com/thismachinekil
lspod/328-the-universal-science-of-advertisement-ft-lee-mcguigan
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Personal Role in No Tech Apartheid Movement Advocacy
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To be precise, I played a small role a long time ago. The people at @NoTechApartheid are the ones bravely carrying it forward now.
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Mapping AI Technology Used in Gaza: Corporate Accountability
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Why is it important to map the tech used to facilitate slaughter in Gaza & link it back to the companies/people who contributed? It's not because these systems matter, in a vacuum. It's because we MUST ensure that "AI" is not used to facilitate computational escape from
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European Approach to Shaping Artificial Intelligence’s Digital Future
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European approach to artificial intelligence | Shaping Europe’s digital future https://
europa.eu/!Qp68CW
#digitaleu #artificialintelligence #digital #future #innovation #technology @DigitalEU @elaniaz @ArturHabant @CurieuxExplorer @Shi4Tech @smaksked @BetaMoroney @PawlowskiMario