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Jay OwenGlobal Citizen, Wealth of Networks

Photo by World Economic Forum/Mattias Nutt A Note from B Team CEO Halla Tómasdóttir Last week I traveled to Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting. I was frankly unsure if this was a good venue for The B Team to B. I struggle to believe that real …

New Scientist: “Call AI By a Better Name”

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen, Trendspotting, Wealth of Networks

“Ethical Markets agrees with New Scientist!  I proposed re-naming so-called “AI” (which is just an advertising slogan):  “Human -Trained Machine Learning”, because there’s nothing artificial about it!  See my  “Let’s Teach Humans…Before We Teach Machines”. Also  see my “The Idiocy of Things “ and  “The Future of Democracy Challenged in the …

How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Repression

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, Global Citizen, Trendspotting, Wealth of Networks

“Ethical Markets highly recommends this article “The Road to  Digital Unfreedom” from the Carnegie Endowment, which documents the current use of digital surveillance by autocratic regimes, facilitated by the dangers of mis-use of human-trained machine intelligence (so-called AI) now tracking individuals and groups. Dictatorships are using  big data collection schemes, …

Political communication scholar Kathleen Hall Jamieson examines Russian efforts to impact the 2016 election.

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen, Trendspotting, Wealth of Networks

“Ethical markets highly recommends this talk by media expert Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Foundation, which give the best  actual video examples so far, of the various disinformation campaigns by Russia’s  government Internet Research Agency based in St. Petersberg, targeting US citizens to sow dissention, anger and hatred during …