#digitalgovernance — Public Fediverse posts
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What really matters to us isn't consciousness but moral agency, & there's no way to attribute that to a corporate output without disincentivising the corporation from doing a good job making that output. www.joannajbryson.org/artificial-c... #consciousness #digitalGovernance #AIRegulation #AIEthics
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What really matters to us isn't consciousness but moral agency, & there's no way to attribute that to a corporate output without disincentivising the corporation from doing a good job making that output. www.joannajbryson.org/artificial-c... #consciousness #digitalGovernance #AIRegulation #AIEthics
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What really matters to us isn't consciousness but moral agency, & there's no way to attribute that to a corporate output without disincentivising the corporation from doing a good job making that output. www.joannajbryson.org/artificial-c... #consciousness #digitalGovernance #AIRegulation #AIEthics
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Soft Censorship Requires No Bans
By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News
Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — August 20, 2026, 17:35 PHST
Censorship is commonly understood as removal: content is banned, blocked, or deleted by an identifiable authority. This understanding no longer captures how information control operates in large-scale digital systems. In modern platforms, suppression rarely requires prohibition. It requires only reduced visibility.
This essay advances a single claim: when information access is mediated by ranking systems, suppression can occur through obscurity rather than removal, making censorship both quieter and more durable.
Visibility as the Real Control Point
In digital environments, information does not need to be erased to be neutralized. If content cannot be easily found, it effectively ceases to exist for most users. Discovery, not publication, becomes the decisive threshold.
Ranking systems determine which sources appear prominently and which are buried beneath layers of results rarely explored. These systems operate continuously, invisibly adjusting what is seen first, what is seen later, and what is functionally unseen.
Control over visibility is control over relevance.
Downranking as a Suppressive Tool
Soft censorship operates through mechanisms such as downranking, demonetization, and reduced recommendation. Content remains technically available, but its reach collapses. The absence of explicit prohibition allows platforms to deny censorship while achieving similar outcomes.
Because no rule violation is publicly declared, affected creators and publishers often lack clarity about why visibility declined. There is no formal accusation to contest and no clear decision to appeal.
Suppression becomes procedural rather than declarative.
The Advantage of Invisibility
Soft censorship benefits from ambiguity. Without bans or blocks, there is no clear moment of enforcement and no obvious authority to challenge. Responsibility is diffused across systems, models, and automated processes.
This ambiguity protects platforms from accountability while leaving affected parties uncertain and isolated. Declines in visibility can be attributed to market forces, audience behavior, or algorithmic updates rather than deliberate intervention.
The outcome remains the same regardless of explanation.
Behavioral Adaptation
When visibility determines survival, behavior adapts. Publishers alter language, tone, and framing to align with perceived ranking preferences. Topics are avoided. Claims are softened. Complexity is reduced.
This adaptation occurs without instruction or coercion. It emerges from incentive alignment. Over time, the range of visible discourse narrows, not through force, but through optimization.
Self-censorship becomes a rational response.
Why Removal Is No Longer Necessary
Hard bans generate resistance, publicity, and legal scrutiny. Soft suppression generates none of these. Content remains accessible in theory, satisfying formal commitments to openness, while disappearing in practice.
This method is scalable, deniable, and resilient. It does not rely on constant enforcement. It relies on design.
Once implemented, it becomes the default mode of control.
Structural Consequences
Soft censorship produces predictable effects:
- controversial or nonconforming material loses reach
- minority and specialized viewpoints fade from visibility
- correction lags amplification
- conformity outperforms originality
These outcomes do not require coordination or intent. They arise from systems that prioritize engagement and predictability over pluralism.
Control Without Declaration
The absence of bans does not indicate the absence of censorship. It indicates a more advanced form of it. When suppression operates through obscurity, authority no longer needs to announce itself.
Information remains available. Access does not.
This distinction defines the modern information environment.
This essay will be added to the WPS News monthly briefing or monthly brief available at Amazon.
References
Balkin, J. M. (2018). Free speech in the algorithmic society. UC Davis Law Review, 51(3), 1149–1210.
Gillespie, T. (2018). Custodians of the Internet. Yale University Press.
Klonick, K. (2017). The new governors: The people, rules, and processes governing online speech. Harvard Law Review, 131(6), 1598–1670.
Roberts, S. T. (2019). Behind the screen: Content moderation in the shadows of social media. Yale University Press.
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The System Won’t Let Me: How AI Turned Bureaucracy Into an Alibi
The most revealing sentence in modern institutional life is not, “You have been denied.” A denial still implies a denier. The more revealing sentence is, “The system won’t let me.” That sentence empties the room while everyone remains inside it. The employee is present. The institution is present. The consequence is present. Only authorship has disappeared. A machine with no legal personality has exercised practical power, while a human being with legal personality claims to possess none. You may hear the sentence after a medical authorization is refused, an account is frozen, a job application is rejected, a benefit is interrupted, or a manuscript is accused. The speaker may be genuinely sympathetic. Sympathy, however, cannot reopen the file, suspend the penalty, or restore what the system has taken. […]https://bolesblogs.com/2026/08/19/the-system-wont-let-me-how-ai-turned-bureaucracy-into-an-alibi/
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The System Won’t Let Me: How AI Turned Bureaucracy Into an Alibi
The most revealing sentence in modern institutional life is not, “You have been denied.” A denial still implies a denier. The more revealing sentence is, “The system won’t let me.” That sentence empties the room while everyone remains inside it. The employee is present. The institution is present. The consequence is present. Only authorship has disappeared. A machine with no legal personality has exercised practical power, while a human being with legal personality claims to possess none. You may hear the sentence after a medical authorization is refused, an account is frozen, a job application is rejected, a benefit is interrupted, or a manuscript is accused. The speaker may be genuinely sympathetic. Sympathy, however, cannot reopen the file, suspend the penalty, or restore what the system has taken. […]https://bolesblogs.com/2026/08/19/the-system-wont-let-me-how-ai-turned-bureaucracy-into-an-alibi/
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The System Won’t Let Me: How AI Turned Bureaucracy Into an Alibi
The most revealing sentence in modern institutional life is not, “You have been denied.” A denial still implies a denier. The more revealing sentence is, “The system won’t let me.” That sentence empties the room while everyone remains inside it. The employee is present. The institution is present. The consequence is present. Only authorship has disappeared. A machine with no legal personality has exercised practical power, while a human being with legal personality claims to possess none. You may hear the sentence after a medical authorization is refused, an account is frozen, a job application is rejected, a benefit is interrupted, or a manuscript is accused. The speaker may be genuinely sympathetic. Sympathy, however, cannot reopen the file, suspend the penalty, or restore what the system has taken. […]https://bolesblogs.com/2026/08/19/the-system-wont-let-me-how-ai-turned-bureaucracy-into-an-alibi/
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The System Won’t Let Me: How AI Turned Bureaucracy Into an Alibi
The most revealing sentence in modern institutional life is not, “You have been denied.” A denial still implies a denier. The more revealing sentence is, “The system won’t let me.” That sentence empties the room while everyone remains inside it. The employee is present. The institution is present. The consequence is present. Only authorship has disappeared. A machine with no legal personality has exercised practical power, while a human being with legal personality claims to possess none. You may hear the sentence after a medical authorization is refused, an account is frozen, a job application is rejected, a benefit is interrupted, or a manuscript is accused. The speaker may be genuinely sympathetic. Sympathy, however, cannot reopen the file, suspend the penalty, or restore what the system has taken. […]https://bolesblogs.com/2026/08/19/the-system-wont-let-me-how-ai-turned-bureaucracy-into-an-alibi/
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'Complaints to state regulators about lawyers, financial advisers and estate agents are climbing, according to data compiled by @[email protected] of the @[email protected] in Berlin, who has coined the term #agenticFlooding .'
#AIEthics #digitalGovernance
www.economist.com/britain/2026...
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'Complaints to state regulators about lawyers, financial advisers and estate agents are climbing, according to data compiled by @[email protected] of the @[email protected] in Berlin, who has coined the term #agenticFlooding .'
#AIEthics #digitalGovernance
www.economist.com/britain/2026...
From parking tickets to planni... -
'Complaints to state regulators about lawyers, financial advisers and estate agents are climbing, according to data compiled by @[email protected] of the @[email protected] in Berlin, who has coined the term #agenticFlooding .'
#AIEthics #digitalGovernance
www.economist.com/britain/2026...
From parking tickets to planni... -
'Complaints to state regulators about lawyers, financial advisers and estate agents are climbing, according to data compiled by @[email protected] of the @[email protected] in Berlin, who has coined the term #agenticFlooding .'
#AIEthics #digitalGovernance
www.economist.com/britain/2026...
From parking tickets to planni... -
'Complaints to state regulators about lawyers, financial advisers and estate agents are climbing, according to data compiled by @[email protected] of the @[email protected] in Berlin, who has coined the term #agenticFlooding .'
#AIEthics #digitalGovernance
www.economist.com/britain/2026...
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Google scholar shows just 4 cites of Microsoft's press release, & none of the EC's "noting" the event.
It's easy to find complaints about the LACK of remedy, but not documenting of what WAS done, nor its effectiveness. Nor utilities.
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Google scholar shows just 4 cites of Microsoft's press release, & none of the EC's "noting" the event.
It's easy to find complaints about the LACK of remedy, but not documenting of what WAS done, nor its effectiveness. Nor utilities.
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Google scholar shows just 4 cites of Microsoft's press release, & none of the EC's "noting" the event.
It's easy to find complaints about the LACK of remedy, but not documenting of what WAS done, nor its effectiveness. Nor utilities.
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Here's a whole lot of lawyers (and me) testifying to British parliament that #AILiability actually after you think about it is not complicated at all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3wM...
#AIEthics #digitalGovernance cc @[email protected]
AI APPG 2022: AI and Intellect... -
Here's a whole lot of lawyers (and me) testifying to British parliament that #AILiability actually after you think about it is not complicated at all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3wM...
#AIEthics #digitalGovernance cc @[email protected]
AI APPG 2022: AI and Intellect... -
Here's a whole lot of lawyers (and me) testifying to British parliament that #AILiability actually after you think about it is not complicated at all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3wM...
#AIEthics #digitalGovernance cc @[email protected]
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Come be part of the solution to digital market concentration and corporate power! #DMA https://www.article19.org/digital-markets-act-from-solo-act-to-orchestra/
If you research this area, please submit an abstract by 21 September! #digitalGovernance #antitrust #competitionLaw
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Come be part of the solution to digital market concentration and corporate power! #DMA https://www.article19.org/digital-markets-act-from-solo-act-to-orchestra/
If you research this area, please submit an abstract by 21 September! #digitalGovernance #antitrust #competitionLaw
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Come be part of the solution to digital market concentration and corporate power! #DMA https://www.article19.org/digital-markets-act-from-solo-act-to-orchestra/
If you research this area, please submit an abstract by 21 September! #digitalGovernance #antitrust #competitionLaw
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Come be part of the solution to digital market concentration and corporate power! #DMA https://www.article19.org/digital-markets-act-from-solo-act-to-orchestra/
If you research this area, please submit an abstract by 21 September! #digitalGovernance #antitrust #competitionLaw
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Come be part of the solution to digital market concentration and corporate power! #DMA https://www.article19.org/digital-markets-act-from-solo-act-to-orchestra/
If you research this area, please submit an abstract by 21 September! #digitalGovernance #antitrust #competitionLaw
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Come be part of the solution to digital market concentration and corporate power! #DMA www.article19.org/digital-mark...
If you research this area, please submit an abstract by 21 September! #digitalGovernance #antitrust #competitionLaw
Digital Markets Act: from Solo... -
Come be part of the solution to digital market concentration and corporate power! #DMA www.article19.org/digital-mark...
If you research this area, please submit an abstract by 21 September! #digitalGovernance #antitrust #competitionLaw
Digital Markets Act: from Solo... -
Come be part of the solution to digital market concentration and corporate power! #DMA www.article19.org/digital-mark...
If you research this area, please submit an abstract by 21 September! #digitalGovernance #antitrust #competitionLaw
Digital Markets Act: from Solo... -
Milton Mueller is spot on with his commentary, echoing a tension in #AI #Policy narratives I also keep pointing out in my lectures:
"So where does that lead us? The safety paradigm asks us to slow down and control development via globalized governance. The race narrative urges American companies to stay ahead but also fosters a connection between national security and digital technology development that encourages the government to exclude foreigners from the market and even to review and license American AI development. So which is it – review and license or let her rip? All these issues came to a head in June-July 2026, when the leading AI firms and the U.S. government tried to square a circle by taking both sides."
Political debate about #DigitalTechnologies is in dire need of better differentiation and better #TechJournalism to point out logical inconsistencies and work towards better policies as the current state of unpredictable and contradictory policy actions creates unnecessary risks
https://www.internetgovernance.org/2026/08/01/colliding-ai-governance-narratives/
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Milton Mueller is spot on with his commentary, echoing a tension in #AI #Policy narratives I also keep pointing out in my lectures:
"So where does that lead us? The safety paradigm asks us to slow down and control development via globalized governance. The race narrative urges American companies to stay ahead but also fosters a connection between national security and digital technology development that encourages the government to exclude foreigners from the market and even to review and license American AI development. So which is it – review and license or let her rip? All these issues came to a head in June-July 2026, when the leading AI firms and the U.S. government tried to square a circle by taking both sides."
Political debate about #DigitalTechnologies is in dire need of better differentiation and better #TechJournalism to point out logical inconsistencies and work towards better policies as the current state of unpredictable and contradictory policy actions creates unnecessary risks
https://www.internetgovernance.org/2026/08/01/colliding-ai-governance-narratives/
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Milton Mueller is spot on with his commentary, echoing a tension in #AI #Policy narratives I also keep pointing out in my lectures:
"So where does that lead us? The safety paradigm asks us to slow down and control development via globalized governance. The race narrative urges American companies to stay ahead but also fosters a connection between national security and digital technology development that encourages the government to exclude foreigners from the market and even to review and license American AI development. So which is it – review and license or let her rip? All these issues came to a head in June-July 2026, when the leading AI firms and the U.S. government tried to square a circle by taking both sides."
Political debate about #DigitalTechnologies is in dire need of better differentiation and better #TechJournalism to point out logical inconsistencies and work towards better policies as the current state of unpredictable and contradictory policy actions creates unnecessary risks
https://www.internetgovernance.org/2026/08/01/colliding-ai-governance-narratives/
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Milton Mueller is spot on with his commentary, echoing a tension in #AI #Policy narratives I also keep pointing out in my lectures:
"So where does that lead us? The safety paradigm asks us to slow down and control development via globalized governance. The race narrative urges American companies to stay ahead but also fosters a connection between national security and digital technology development that encourages the government to exclude foreigners from the market and even to review and license American AI development. So which is it – review and license or let her rip? All these issues came to a head in June-July 2026, when the leading AI firms and the U.S. government tried to square a circle by taking both sides."
Political debate about #DigitalTechnologies is in dire need of better differentiation and better #TechJournalism to point out logical inconsistencies and work towards better policies as the current state of unpredictable and contradictory policy actions creates unnecessary risks
https://www.internetgovernance.org/2026/08/01/colliding-ai-governance-narratives/
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Milton Mueller is spot on with his commentary, echoing a tension in #AI #Policy narratives I also keep pointing out in my lectures:
"So where does that lead us? The safety paradigm asks us to slow down and control development via globalized governance. The race narrative urges American companies to stay ahead but also fosters a connection between national security and digital technology development that encourages the government to exclude foreigners from the market and even to review and license American AI development. So which is it – review and license or let her rip? All these issues came to a head in June-July 2026, when the leading AI firms and the U.S. government tried to square a circle by taking both sides."
Political debate about #DigitalTechnologies is in dire need of better differentiation and better #TechJournalism to point out logical inconsistencies and work towards better policies as the current state of unpredictable and contradictory policy actions creates unnecessary risks
https://www.internetgovernance.org/2026/08/01/colliding-ai-governance-narratives/
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Just finished the fascinating John von Neumann biography "The man from the future" by Ananyo Bhattacharyya and it is a great read, tying together several breakthroughs of the 20th century and tracing the origins of ideas and technologies that keep us up at night today, like #AI
The epilogue refers to an essay by John von Neumann whose title question still resonates today: "Can we survive technology?"
A key point for me regarding today's #DigitalGovernance debates is the following paragraph (that oddly enough, is very similar to the core message of Mustafa Suleyman's book "The Coming Wave", see my review for Schweizer Monat here: https://schweizermonat.ch/fuer-risiken-und-nebenwirkungen-fragen-sie-chatgpt/)
"For progress there is no cure. Any attempt to find automatically safe channels for the present explosive variety of progress must lead to frustration. The only
safety possible is relative, and it lies in an intelligent exercise of day-to-day judgment."
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Just finished the fascinating John von Neumann biography "The man from the future" by Ananyo Bhattacharyya and it is a great read, tying together several breakthroughs of the 20th century and tracing the origins of ideas and technologies that keep us up at night today, like #AI
The epilogue refers to an essay by John von Neumann whose title question still resonates today: "Can we survive technology?"
A key point for me regarding today's #DigitalGovernance debates is the following paragraph (that oddly enough, is very similar to the core message of Mustafa Suleyman's book "The Coming Wave", see my review for Schweizer Monat here: https://schweizermonat.ch/fuer-risiken-und-nebenwirkungen-fragen-sie-chatgpt/)
"For progress there is no cure. Any attempt to find automatically safe channels for the present explosive variety of progress must lead to frustration. The only
safety possible is relative, and it lies in an intelligent exercise of day-to-day judgment."
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Just finished the fascinating John von Neumann biography "The man from the future" by Ananyo Bhattacharyya and it is a great read, tying together several breakthroughs of the 20th century and tracing the origins of ideas and technologies that keep us up at night today, like #AI
The epilogue refers to an essay by John von Neumann whose title question still resonates today: "Can we survive technology?"
A key point for me regarding today's #DigitalGovernance debates is the following paragraph (that oddly enough, is very similar to the core message of Mustafa Suleyman's book "The Coming Wave", see my review for Schweizer Monat here: https://schweizermonat.ch/fuer-risiken-und-nebenwirkungen-fragen-sie-chatgpt/)
"For progress there is no cure. Any attempt to find automatically safe channels for the present explosive variety of progress must lead to frustration. The only
safety possible is relative, and it lies in an intelligent exercise of day-to-day judgment."
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Just finished the fascinating John von Neumann biography "The man from the future" by Ananyo Bhattacharyya and it is a great read, tying together several breakthroughs of the 20th century and tracing the origins of ideas and technologies that keep us up at night today, like #AI
The epilogue refers to an essay by John von Neumann whose title question still resonates today: "Can we survive technology?"
A key point for me regarding today's #DigitalGovernance debates is the following paragraph (that oddly enough, is very similar to the core message of Mustafa Suleyman's book "The Coming Wave", see my review for Schweizer Monat here: https://schweizermonat.ch/fuer-risiken-und-nebenwirkungen-fragen-sie-chatgpt/)
"For progress there is no cure. Any attempt to find automatically safe channels for the present explosive variety of progress must lead to frustration. The only
safety possible is relative, and it lies in an intelligent exercise of day-to-day judgment."
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Just finished the fascinating John von Neumann biography "The man from the future" by Ananyo Bhattacharyya and it is a great read, tying together several breakthroughs of the 20th century and tracing the origins of ideas and technologies that keep us up at night today, like #AI
The epilogue refers to an essay by John von Neumann whose title question still resonates today: "Can we survive technology?"
A key point for me regarding today's #DigitalGovernance debates is the following paragraph (that oddly enough, is very similar to the core message of Mustafa Suleyman's book "The Coming Wave", see my review for Schweizer Monat here: https://schweizermonat.ch/fuer-risiken-und-nebenwirkungen-fragen-sie-chatgpt/)
"For progress there is no cure. Any attempt to find automatically safe channels for the present explosive variety of progress must lead to frustration. The only
safety possible is relative, and it lies in an intelligent exercise of day-to-day judgment."
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Birth and Death Registration Bill 2026: What changes, benefits and concerns https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/birth-and-death-registration-bill-2026-explained-jo69z3vk?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #BirthAndDeathBill #LokSabha #DigitalGovernance #DataPrivacy
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Birth and Death Registration Bill 2026: What changes, benefits and concerns https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/birth-and-death-registration-bill-2026-explained-jo69z3vk?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #BirthAndDeathBill #LokSabha #DigitalGovernance #DataPrivacy
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Birth and Death Registration Bill 2026: What changes, benefits and concerns https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/birth-and-death-registration-bill-2026-explained-jo69z3vk?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #BirthAndDeathBill #LokSabha #DigitalGovernance #DataPrivacy
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Birth and Death Registration Bill 2026: What changes, benefits and concerns https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/birth-and-death-registration-bill-2026-explained-jo69z3vk?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #BirthAndDeathBill #LokSabha #DigitalGovernance #DataPrivacy
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"AI safety becomes a competitive moat when an incumbent’s existing safety apparatus becomes a legal prerequisite for deployment." and Anthropic have some real policy power connections on board, e.g. @[email protected] #weaponisedInterdependence #digitalGovernance #AIRegulation
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"AI safety becomes a competitive moat when an incumbent’s existing safety apparatus becomes a legal prerequisite for deployment." and Anthropic have some real policy power connections on board, e.g. @[email protected] #weaponisedInterdependence #digitalGovernance #AIRegulation
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HYBRID 23-24 JUL 13:00 UTC – 1st CTU Caribbean Artificial Intelligence Forum (CAIF 2026)
https://isoc.live/21636The Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) hosts a two-day hybrid forum launching the Caribbean AI Task Force Final Report, under the theme 'AI for Caribbean Transformation'. Panels on AI governance, data sovereignty, human-centric AI, women in AI, SIDS development, climate resilience & economic transformation.
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HYBRID 23-24 JUL 13:00 UTC – 1st CTU Caribbean Artificial Intelligence Forum (CAIF 2026)
https://isoc.live/21636The Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) hosts a two-day hybrid forum launching the Caribbean AI Task Force Final Report, under the theme 'AI for Caribbean Transformation'. Panels on AI governance, data sovereignty, human-centric AI, women in AI, SIDS development, climate resilience & economic transformation.
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HYBRID 23-24 JUL 13:00 UTC – 1st CTU Caribbean Artificial Intelligence Forum (CAIF 2026)
https://isoc.live/21636The Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) hosts a two-day hybrid forum launching the Caribbean AI Task Force Final Report, under the theme 'AI for Caribbean Transformation'. Panels on AI governance, data sovereignty, human-centric AI, women in AI, SIDS development, climate resilience & economic transformation.
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HYBRID 23-24 JUL 13:00 UTC – 1st CTU Caribbean Artificial Intelligence Forum (CAIF 2026)
https://isoc.live/21636The Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) hosts a two-day hybrid forum launching the Caribbean AI Task Force Final Report, under the theme 'AI for Caribbean Transformation'. Panels on AI governance, data sovereignty, human-centric AI, women in AI, SIDS development, climate resilience & economic transformation.
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"In European and other Western democracies, there is interest in using Chinese models to avoid total dependence on America. Alas, if countries fear domination by a control-obsessed superpower, they might not want to pin all their hopes on China. Strict rules require Chinese AI firms to uphold national security, social stability and “core socialist values”. Its cyber-regulators test LLMs, bots and agents for political compliance, bombarding them with tricky questions. The effects can be startling. Last year American researchers asked Miiloo, a baby-voiced, AI-enabled doll exported from China, about the status of Taiwan. The island “is an inalienable part of China”, replied the toy, and this “cannot be refuted”.
https://www.economist.com/international/2026/07/14/when-chinas-open-source-ai-is-a-trap
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"In European and other Western democracies, there is interest in using Chinese models to avoid total dependence on America. Alas, if countries fear domination by a control-obsessed superpower, they might not want to pin all their hopes on China. Strict rules require Chinese AI firms to uphold national security, social stability and “core socialist values”. Its cyber-regulators test LLMs, bots and agents for political compliance, bombarding them with tricky questions. The effects can be startling. Last year American researchers asked Miiloo, a baby-voiced, AI-enabled doll exported from China, about the status of Taiwan. The island “is an inalienable part of China”, replied the toy, and this “cannot be refuted”.
https://www.economist.com/international/2026/07/14/when-chinas-open-source-ai-is-a-trap
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"In European and other Western democracies, there is interest in using Chinese models to avoid total dependence on America. Alas, if countries fear domination by a control-obsessed superpower, they might not want to pin all their hopes on China. Strict rules require Chinese AI firms to uphold national security, social stability and “core socialist values”. Its cyber-regulators test LLMs, bots and agents for political compliance, bombarding them with tricky questions. The effects can be startling. Last year American researchers asked Miiloo, a baby-voiced, AI-enabled doll exported from China, about the status of Taiwan. The island “is an inalienable part of China”, replied the toy, and this “cannot be refuted”.
https://www.economist.com/international/2026/07/14/when-chinas-open-source-ai-is-a-trap
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"In European and other Western democracies, there is interest in using Chinese models to avoid total dependence on America. Alas, if countries fear domination by a control-obsessed superpower, they might not want to pin all their hopes on China. Strict rules require Chinese AI firms to uphold national security, social stability and “core socialist values”. Its cyber-regulators test LLMs, bots and agents for political compliance, bombarding them with tricky questions. The effects can be startling. Last year American researchers asked Miiloo, a baby-voiced, AI-enabled doll exported from China, about the status of Taiwan. The island “is an inalienable part of China”, replied the toy, and this “cannot be refuted”.
https://www.economist.com/international/2026/07/14/when-chinas-open-source-ai-is-a-trap
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"In European and other Western democracies, there is interest in using Chinese models to avoid total dependence on America. Alas, if countries fear domination by a control-obsessed superpower, they might not want to pin all their hopes on China. Strict rules require Chinese AI firms to uphold national security, social stability and “core socialist values”. Its cyber-regulators test LLMs, bots and agents for political compliance, bombarding them with tricky questions. The effects can be startling. Last year American researchers asked Miiloo, a baby-voiced, AI-enabled doll exported from China, about the status of Taiwan. The island “is an inalienable part of China”, replied the toy, and this “cannot be refuted”.
https://www.economist.com/international/2026/07/14/when-chinas-open-source-ai-is-a-trap
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Uncertainty is the new normal. This piece explores how technology leaders stay calm, decisive, and trusted when disruption never stops. #TechLeadership #LeadershipInUncertainty #LeadingThroughDisruption #DigitalTransformation #StrategicLeadership #ResilientSystems #TechnologyStrategy #InnovationLeadership #LeadershipIntegrity #ResponsibleTech #DigitalGovernance #PublicSectorTechnology #CloudLeadership #TechCulture #ChangeLeadership #FutureOfWork #CIOLeadership #CTOLeadership #EnterpriseTechnology
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/calm-storm-technology-leadership-when-ground-keeps-mohindroo--lt9dc -
Uncertainty is the new normal. This piece explores how technology leaders stay calm, decisive, and trusted when disruption never stops. #TechLeadership #LeadershipInUncertainty #LeadingThroughDisruption #DigitalTransformation #StrategicLeadership #ResilientSystems #TechnologyStrategy #InnovationLeadership #LeadershipIntegrity #ResponsibleTech #DigitalGovernance #PublicSectorTechnology #CloudLeadership #TechCulture #ChangeLeadership #FutureOfWork #CIOLeadership #CTOLeadership #EnterpriseTechnology
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/calm-storm-technology-leadership-when-ground-keeps-mohindroo--lt9dc -
Jaishankar, Irish FM Discuss Trade, Education Ties as Ireland Assumes EU Council Presidency
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday held a conversation with his Irish counterp…
#Europe #EU #EuropeanCouncil #administrativeburdens #bilateralties #digitalgovernance #educationties #energycrisis #EUcompetitiveness #EUcouncil #EUleadership #eutrade #HelenMcEntee #IRELANDEUPRESIDENCY #JaishankarIreland #multilateralfora #SingleMarket #tradecooperation
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A #dighum #dighum2026 special – I've put all my thoughts about about "hyperscalers" and allegedly US AI in one place.
Featured a bit is @[email protected] of course
#digitalGovernance #DMA #AIRegulation #antitrust #GAFAM #transnationalUtilities
joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2026/06/work...
Working With Giants -
A #dighum #dighum2026 special – I've put all my thoughts about about "hyperscalers" and allegedly US AI in one place.
Featured a bit is @[email protected] of course
#digitalGovernance #DMA #AIRegulation #antitrust #GAFAM #transnationalUtilities
joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2026/06/work...
Working With Giants
