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In an interview with the BBC, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, advises people to be cautious of what AI tells them, suggesting that AI should be combined with other tools such as, er, Google search (owned by Alphabet). But if we shouldn’t blindly t…
The scandal at the British Post Office, details of which are now emerging in the Public Enquiry, provides illustrations of many important aspects of organizational behaviour as discussed on this blog. Willful blindness. There is a strong attachmen…
The scandal at the British Post Office, details of which are now emerging in the Public Enquiry, provides illustrations of many important aspects of organizational behaviour as discussed on this blog. Willful blindness. There is a strong attachmen…
If someone tries to get you to invest in some shiny new technology — like blockchain 5-8 years ago — beware. How do you judge these proposals? A realistic use case is key.
What is the information revolution doing to us humans? A very condensed journey from essences of digital technology and human intelligence to the role of talk, trust and the impact of IT on society.
Let us suppose we can divide the world into those who trust service companies to treat their customers fairly, and those who assume that service companies will be looking to exploit any customer weakness or lapse of attention.For example, some loyal cu…
Infrastructure is boring, expensive, and usually someone else’s
responsibility/problem. Which is perhaps how the UK finds itself at what
Jeremy Fleming, head of GCHQ, describes as a moment of reckoning. Simon Wardley analyses this in terms of digital…
Infrastructure is boring, expensive, and usually someone else’s responsibility/problem. Which is perhaps how the UK finds itself at what Jeremy Fleming, head of GCHQ, describes as a moment of reckoning. Simon Wardley analyses this in terms of digital…
What is the information revolution doing to us humans? A very condensed journey from essences of digital technology and human intelligence to the role of talk, trust and the impact of IT on society.
This is one of a series of posts looking at the four key dimensions of data and information that must be addressed in a data strategy – reach, richness, agility and assurance.In previous posts, I looked at Reach (the range of data sources and destina…
Last week I was in Berlin at the invitation of the IEEE to help develop standards for responsible technology (P7000). One of the working groups (P7001) is looking at transparency, especially in relation to autonomous and semi-autonomous systems. In thi…
@ruchowdh objects to an article by @etzioni and @tianhuil calling for algorithms to audit algorithms. The original article makes the following points.Automated auditing, at a massive scale, can systematically probe AI systems and uncover biases or oth…