Dear Colleagues, I wanted to share a quick update regarding a special CxOTalk live discussion organized by Michael Krigsman. Live on Tuesday, 12 April 2022 — he will host both Konstantin Vasyuk — Executive Director of the IT Ukraine Association, the largest association of the tech industry in Ukraine —…

Greetings all — short post to share an invitation to a public livestream on Wednesday, 02 February from 1100–1200 Eastern (0800–0900 Pacific) featuring Dame Wendy Hall, Dr. Vint Cerf, Teresa Carlson, Dr. Tricia Wang, Derry Goberdhansingh, Stephanie Wander, and myself on the topic of “Four Internets” with regards to navigating…

Back in 2003, I had the opportunity to give a talk looking at trends that would shape year 2030. The talk was a follow-on to my work as a member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Program. …

It may seem like our days are a flood of communication — emails, text messages, social media posts, cell phone calls, voice messages, websites, internet discussion threads, podcasts, television, radio, podcasts, streaming news, and more. Even this post itself is an attempt at communication. Yet how often do we think…

Calling all Folks Who Care About Open Societies The National Academy of Public Administration needs you for your input into an upcoming 1 year-long endeavor on the “Future of Artificial Intelligence and Public Service.” We plan to explore the following: AI Services to Citizens AI-Driven Decision Making Ethical Considerations and AI Governance Generative AI in Government Communications AI…

Event: Monday, 22 May 2023 — GMU’s AI Strategies Minerva Grant Team — “Why trust matters in AI? How can we achieve it?” at the Arlington Campus from 1830–2030 ET Greetings Friends and Colleagues, For those in DC/VA on Monday, 22 May — GMU’s AI Strategies Minerva Grant Team has asked me to give a keynote on “Why trust matters in AI? How can we achieve it?” at their Arlington Campus from 1830–2030 ET.

I have previously written about the need for Adapting, Building, and Cultivating a Defense-Focused Workforce for the Challenges of 2025 and Beyond — and outlined how this could be done holistically; specifically (1) have DoD operate with some discretionary part of its budget, say 5%, on spotlight efforts that did…

They say time flies when you’re having fun* — and while I don’t know if any rational individual would consider the last few years of global turbulence, COVID-19, and increasing polarization in open societies to be “fun”, time definitely seems to have flown by fast. (* = speaking of time…

Part one of this discussion highlighted a big challenge for open societies around the world, namely: Technologies have been developed to make it easier to flood the public space with spammed content — call it astroturfing or bot-net generated content or whatever words you want — and this means the…