At every conference, someone reaches for the tranquilizer line: “AI is just a tool—like a camera.” It sounds sensible because cameras calmed us once: art didn’t die; it changed. But cameras point at the world and capture what’s there. Modern AI points at us and proposes what comes next—labels, scores, sentences that other systems treat as facts.
Read MoreYour policy window is narrowing.
FaceMash wasn’t a prank; it was a prototype—rating women like trading cards. I even watched an MSDN colleague rank dates in an Excel “marriageable” index at work; the eye-roll response from executives was governance by shrug.
Read MoreToday, I'm sharing news of an initiative occupying my thoughts and research: the Global Student & AI Rights Pledge & Declaration. These are two initiatives I architected as part of presentations I gave this year at ICTE 2024. But before I detail these efforts, I want to emphasize something important: this isn't just another policy document destined to gather digital dust in some institutional repository.
Read More
