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Some of my blog articles, events, videos or books!

Jul 8

Setting Guardrails for an AI-Enabled World

What does it mean to set guardrails in an AI-Enabled world? This will be a thought provoking panel. We will discuss the possibilities of...

Jun 19

Building Health Guardrails

AI can help when we have issues with geographical access or an inadequate number of health providers (thanks @Ricardo, who spoke about...

Jun 18

Open Source AI - What does it mean?

How many times have you heard about Open Source AI and assumed it is good? Open source means different things and it is important the...

Jun 16

Wisdom versus Data: Something to Consider in the World of AI

We are all familiar with the Data Pyramid, but I want to give you a different interpretation on it. Especially, as it is applied today in...

Jun 16

When Regulators are Unable to Manage Industry Cross-Overs

We are seeing more movement of products across industries and the inability of regulators to catch these. Take for example the case of...

Jun 15

Right to Childhood in an AI, gamified online world.

The right to childhood (and its an ambiguous one) would fall more likely under The Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), more...

Jun 3

Future Government Skills

If you work in the public sector (or aspire to, or work with the government affairs department of a private sector company), this open...

May 11

Post-COVID

Post-COVID, life was supposed to get easier - we had onboarded AI and remote working/learning, embraced delivery services.....but we are...

Apr 25

Responsible AI and More: Cybersecurity, Crisis Management and AI Literacy

The State of Lebanon recently reported that its internet provider, Ogero, was under a 10-day cyber attack. A digital expert noted that...

Apr 18

OECD-EU Online Workshop on Regulation of Artificial Intelligence

I listened to two panels: "Competition in the market for foundation models” and “The role of data in development models.” The...

Apr 18

New AI proposal: INDIA

#EU has the #AIAct (first in the world). #USA has recommended the hiring of a Chief AI Officer for every Federal Agency. But, right now,...

Apr 4

Can AI Think? Or Reason?

It is the age of LLMs or GenAI - but can these machines think? Or reason? The answer is NO. Here is why. These examples above show you...

Mar 27

Antitrust laws and AI Tech Firms

Microsoft has found a unique way to get around antitrust competitive laws. Wow they have lawyers working overtime in this space (and lots...

Mar 26

Autonomous Avatars & Digital Me

According to Kozuka, “There can be three possible approaches to the law of avatars. They are to treat an avatar either as a device...

Mar 13

AI Ethics: Accountability – Can We Achieve it?

Accountability is an AI ethics term used by Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Palantir [Not a term used by Nvidia, Amazon, Boston Dynamics,...

Mar 6

AI Enabled Business - Our Book Launch

Yesterday was special, we launched our new book, AI Enable Business: A Smart Decision Kit at MBR School of Government. We started this...

Nov 8, 2023

AI Hardware - Geopolitics

AI is not just software - while much of the regulations/frameworks and guidelines focus on software and data - you do need to consider...

Nov 7, 2023

AI regulations: Review Oct-Nov 2023

AI regulations are coming fast! Besides the anticipated EU AI Act (which will have consequences for AI firms), there is lot more mention...

Aug 30, 2023

Leadership: Surviving the Storm

Leaders are often considered founders, top management, heads of ministries, department heads, or board members, the stewards of an...

Jul 28, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI): A Primer

The quest to create machines that mimic humans has been going on for a long time. Sometimes out of academic endeavor, sometimes out of...