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“What we are seeing in Myanmar is the first successfully sustained rebellion against an oppressive regime since the Arab Spring. Deep in the jungle, a young doctor told me: ‘This is more than just a civil war; it is a revolution.’” —Charles Petrie #myanmar #participatorygovernance #civilsociety
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AI is in its snake oil salesman era. In this Wild West, we must install regulatory oversight. And we can use the FDA as our model, Emilia Javorsky explains in a new Noema piece I commissioned. When I first heard her say we needed an FDA for #AI at a #SXSW event earlier this year, I was convinced it would make for a fascinating Noema piece. And it did! Hope you’ll give it a read, with fantastic editing from Tami Abdollah and beautiful art direction by Amara Higuera! #ai #aiinnovation #airegulation
We Need An FDA For Artificial Intelligence
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“The history of the FDA shows that [regulatory incentive] structures can promote innovation rather than inhibit it & stimulate a lot of profit along the way, by rewarding companies to push the frontier of science to solve societal problems.” —Emilia Javorsky #artificialintelligence #airegulation #aiinnovation
We Need An FDA For Artificial Intelligence
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“Thrown out with the dirty bathwater of the culture wars is the universal dimension of all identities.” —Nathan Gardels #identitypolitics #culturewars #subculture
An Archipelago Of Subcultures
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“If the runaway success of historical conspiracies is any evidence, the survival of history as an academic discipline may rely on something quite unpalatable to historians: channeling the power of history as a form of narrative, & politicizing its present.” —John Last #history #academia #narrative
The Phantoms Haunting History
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Healthcare Narrative Strategist | Storytelling for Outcomes | Strategic Comms for Growth & Innovation
Fantastic read from Carrie Arnold “As it turns out, our immune systems, our synapses, our placentas and embryos, are all driven by viruses.” As a kid I was obsessed with the Rabies virus. I thought it’s structure was beautiful, even if it causes a lot of havoc and harm. I forced myself to stop marveling at it, convinced that obsessing over viruses made me a bioterrorist (this was right after 9/11 and anthrax…) Our old belief that all viruses are “bad” is stifling us from greater understanding and advancement. I love the work being done with pathogens that are being repurposed for treatment. Yes we still need public health infrastructure, especially with more outbreaks on the horizon. But, what would happen if we looked at viruses with a new appreciation? The work is being done, we just need to amplify it. Noema Magazine #biology #virus #COVID19 #innovation #synthbio
Viruses Are Us
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Let’s all calm down. AI is life, but not life as we know it. Fantastic Noema Magazine essay by the designer and philosopher Benjamin H. Bratton who reframes our relationship with AI, in fact with intelligence, as a “Copernican trauma” that manifest itself along the “five stages of grief” that the Swiss psychiatrist Elizabeth Kübler-Ross identified in her 1969 book “On Death and Dying”: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Referring to astrobiologist and theoretical physicist Sara Walker's claim that “AI is life,” Bratton contends: “…human intelligence is not what human intelligence thought it was all this time. It is both something we possess but which possesses us even more. It exists not just in individual brains, but even more so in the durable structures of communication between them, for example, in the form of language.” And: “What is today called ‘artificial intelligence’ should be counted as a Copernican Trauma in the making. It reveals that intelligence, cognition, even mind (…) are not what they seem to be, not what they feel like, and not unique to the human condition. Obviously, the creative and technological sapience necessary to artificialize intelligence is a human accomplishment, but now, that sapience is remaking itself. Since the paleolithic cognitive revolution, human intelligence has artificialized many things — shelter, heat, food, energy, images, sounds, even life itself — but now, that intelligence itself is artificializable.” Further: “Like ‘life,’ intelligence is modular, flexible and scalar, extending to the ingenious work of subcellular living machines and through the depths of evolutionary time. It also extends to much larger aggregations, of which each of us is a part, and also an instance. There is no reason to believe that the story would or should end with us; eschatology is useless. The evolution of intelligence does not peak with one terraforming species of nomadic primates.” Bratton cites the environmentalist, scientist, and author James Lovelock who, in his last book before his death, “Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence,” transcended the dystopian/utopian debate about AI by calmly stating that, as Bratton rephrases: “Earth life as we know it may be giving way to abiotic forms of life/intelligence, and (…) that’s just fine.” Read the full essay here https://lnkd.in/ewdRbpCD #AI #grief #psychology #trauma #tech #life #intelligence Ps. Thanks to Azeem Azhar who discovered and curated this great piece for the latest issue of his excellent Exponential View newsletter. https://lnkd.in/dYziFyp Bayo Akomolafe Dave Edwards Helen Edwards Dr. Angel Acosta
The Five Stages Of AI Grief
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“The total association in popular culture of Indigenous peoples & environmental stewardship has birthed what academics have termed the ‘ecologically noble savage,’” Tristan Søbye Rapp writes. But it’s a complete myth. #conservation #history #anthropology
Paradise Lost?
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“While the very real concerns which animate popular emotions at the polls cannot & should not be dismissed or diminished, the dissonant role of philosophy is to go against the grain of political immediacy to insist on inconvenient truths.” —Nathan Gardels #geopolitics #nationalism #climatechange
Untimely Meditations
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