Yeah this happens up and down the chain of class too. Ask any Fortune 500 CeO about creating a digital replica using AI for example and they need help uploading the file.
Great article! I especially admire the message that we should talk about technology, be curious and ask questions. To me, establishing some basic knowledge guidelines and making them publicly available and validated as universal truth in the digital age would also help to avoid the marketing-pledged promises we're surrounded by. I can't tell you how many non-tech organisation in Bulgaria (my home country) are being actively advised by pseudo-digital advisors for example to just have a website - it's as easy as 1-2-3 with the new platforms and it might be a bad one but at least you have something online. Nobody's teaching them about cookies, third-party data sharing, etc. And the most infuriating thing is that this is a conversation I heard just 2 weeks ago on a conference for healthcare NGOs! How about privacy protection and PII?! I was shocked out of y mind. So I do support everything you shared in this article and I'm happy to see I'm not the only one who feels like our society needs to have a conversation on this topic!
Broadly speaking, IT has a huge regulation problem. It’s weird how much regulation goes into a sweater (farming, fabrication, distribution) and how little there is when it comes to software and the web. A website, an app, those are products, yet not regulated as such. There are some initiatives in the AI space, but the lack of regulation was a problem well before that.
Implementing it is hard. Power is not evenly distributed.
Those platforms are used by billions of people every day. They also have billions of dollars to spend on litigation. As they become part of the infrastructure, we are increasingly reliant on a handful of private tools and companies. We need them, and they don’t need any of us (specifically).
Sometimes, CEOs say those products will empower and change humanity. When it’s convenient, they’re just tools, and we have nothing to worry about.
As I wrote, we need to learn about these issues and start or join conversations about them.
Yeah this happens up and down the chain of class too. Ask any Fortune 500 CeO about creating a digital replica using AI for example and they need help uploading the file.
Great article! I especially admire the message that we should talk about technology, be curious and ask questions. To me, establishing some basic knowledge guidelines and making them publicly available and validated as universal truth in the digital age would also help to avoid the marketing-pledged promises we're surrounded by. I can't tell you how many non-tech organisation in Bulgaria (my home country) are being actively advised by pseudo-digital advisors for example to just have a website - it's as easy as 1-2-3 with the new platforms and it might be a bad one but at least you have something online. Nobody's teaching them about cookies, third-party data sharing, etc. And the most infuriating thing is that this is a conversation I heard just 2 weeks ago on a conference for healthcare NGOs! How about privacy protection and PII?! I was shocked out of y mind. So I do support everything you shared in this article and I'm happy to see I'm not the only one who feels like our society needs to have a conversation on this topic!
Hi, @Ellie Slavcheva.
Those guidelines would be super helpful.
Broadly speaking, IT has a huge regulation problem. It’s weird how much regulation goes into a sweater (farming, fabrication, distribution) and how little there is when it comes to software and the web. A website, an app, those are products, yet not regulated as such. There are some initiatives in the AI space, but the lack of regulation was a problem well before that.
Implementing it is hard. Power is not evenly distributed.
Those platforms are used by billions of people every day. They also have billions of dollars to spend on litigation. As they become part of the infrastructure, we are increasingly reliant on a handful of private tools and companies. We need them, and they don’t need any of us (specifically).
Sometimes, CEOs say those products will empower and change humanity. When it’s convenient, they’re just tools, and we have nothing to worry about.
As I wrote, we need to learn about these issues and start or join conversations about them.