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Aug 26Liked by Andrew Maynard

Now i loved reading this on my Monday morning to get the right form of "dopamine":)

Makes me wonder, how might this framework be applied at the intersection of digital divide for equitable access to advance technologies across the globe while mitigating the "arbitrage" element which global north potentially takes advantage of, from global south?

This also makes me think of adaptation to swarm intelligence with national security implications.

I think in essence, I'm now wondering about the inherent choke points of both emergence and chaos and the interplay with the transitions.

But then again, that's above my cognitive pay grade/competence 😅

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I actually think that in both cases the framework works well as a starting point for exploring challenges and opportunities -- if nothing else it brings a discipline to mapping out the landscape!

Would love to see people playing with this -- all it takes is a bit of paper and a pencil (or digital/whiteboard equivalent) :)

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Andrew, this is a super post (as expected). I wonder how you think about widening the lens...? I mean, we can look narrowly at the relation between Gen AI and 'learning' (recognising that can mean different things). This will offer something like a decent view of 1st, 2nd, and maybe even 3rd order effects in a narrow sense. But all of this stuff is deeply interconnected and interdependent. All technology is innately ecological... Technology, especially stuff like this, is deeply axiological (perhaps even ontological, if we take it further as some have). I'd love to see something like a systems view added to this approach (I try to do this with different approaches to consequence scanning. It's not easy, and is often limited by 'practical stuff' like budget, people involved etc.). IMO this would add a lot of richness to the process itself, and likely deliver deeper insights that support more holistically responsible development and use (where the development itself is in fact normative in some way).

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100% with you -- the examples I used are narrow just to show how the framework might be used (and often when making decisions you need to be specific), but my bigger interest is in interconnected systems where you take a more systemic approach.

Interestingly this is embedded in the Risk Innovation approach, and I wold be interested to see how far the framework here could be pushed.

The challenge is out there :)

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