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LaRae LongGlobal Citizen, Trendspotting, Information Technology Issues, Latest Headlines

“This TV program “In the Age of AI“ is a realistic look at how far behind we are in understanding these threats to our privacy and democracies!  We need to re-launch the Us Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) to research these powerful new  technologies (mostly driven by corporate goals of efficiency and profit), so as to assess their social impacts at their earliest stages!

I served on the Technology Assessment Advisory Council to OTA, which did such research until 1996 when it was shut down by the Republicans who took over Congress.

We re-published its “Assessment of Technology for Local Development“ (1980) which looked at all the possibilities for solar, wind, efficiency, farmers markets, co-housing and is still a guide to the “Small Is Beautiful“ path to local self-reliance (free download)!

Andrew Yang and about 40 members of Congress are bent on relaunching OTA, to catch up with all the issues of social  media, privacy, algorithm biases, IoT and AI!

We support this!  See my recent articles “Let’s Train Humans Before We Train Machines” and  “Steering our Powers of Persuasion Toward our Human Future”.

~Hazel Henderson, Editor“