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Whilst waiting for the #CogX2021 sessions to start streaming, why not quickly check out the open preview of my forthcoming new book, which places the future of AI as central to the future of humanity. "Vital Foresight" dw2blog.com/2021/05/26/a-p…
CEO of @RollsRoyce, Warren East, looks forward to the company "smashing" the air speed record for an electrically powered craft. As part of exploring possibilities for greener air travel #CogX2021
... though it looks like this record-breaking @RollsRoyce effort has been delayed from the schedule originally announced (back in December 2019). Given the uncertainties involved in such innovative engineering, that's not too unexpected #CogX2021 rolls-royce.com/media/press-re…
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Listening to #CogX2020 panel on barriers to data trusts / institutions / stewardship

Usual challenge of language is being identified but not really pointing at the different goals of various actors, how context affects those goals, & the power dynamics in play.
As data is just an (imperfect) representation of our world, then it has all of the rich variety of that world but it also interacts with it and all of the other dynamics going in that world.

It obviously isn't easy, just look at everything that's happened this year :)
No one org - gov, academic, NGO, biz &c - exists that could or should lead on this kind of work.

Instead lots of messy debate, actual experiments, time & different visions to gradually work out how to make data work 'better'* for people

*for various definitions of 'better'
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Join @sarahdrinkwater, @thomasmhughes and @safiyanoble at 17:00 BST to explore:
🔹what is ‘good’?
🔹who is responsible for ‘good’?
🔹how can we embed ‘good’ into structures and processes to make tech work for people and society?

#CogX2020 #AdaCogX2020 Headshots of speakers Sarah Drinkwater, Director, Beneficial Tech, Omidyar Network; Thomas Hughes, Director of Oversight Board Administration, Facebook and Safiya Umoja Noble, Associate Professor, UCLA and Author, Algorithms of Oppression. Session 5: What does 'good' look like in a technosociety? 17:00-17:45 BST. Ethics & Society stage at CogX by Ada Lovelace Institute
1⃣ @safiyanoble speak for those most vulnerable & those in crosshairs of technology design pay the highest price. We are living in a moment of #BlackLivesMatter outpouring through technology and people using technology to protest, connect, bolster calls for police accountability.
2⃣ We have to talk about the implications of technologies. But does ethics defang and undermine the political implications of technology's responsibility for real harms: being the vessels, microphones, amplifiers for calls for hate and harms? And defangs a structural analysis?
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