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What does the emergence of AI mean for humanity from an ethical, humanitarian, and economic perspective? With such potential disruption on the horizon, there is a monumental question at hand that looms large in the context of society as a whole: What defines the appropriate governmental action as it pertains to both creating a regulatory environment as well as making use of this emerging technology for the benefit of the public that government serves?
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21.2.2025 15:58Artificial Intelligence Regulation, Ethics, and its Use in GovernmentA hot take that nobody asked for. But first, a bit of history: Long before it bosted 211 million monetizable active daily users, Twitter started as an undefinable and simplistic platform. It was something between a digital text message and a microblogging service. The founders weren’t even sure what it was, let alone the users. As a result, early adopters often debated how to use the platform back in those primordial days. “Twitter is not a chat!” was scrawled like cheap graffiti across the platform as debates raged as to the platform’s true purpose. Those early users wrestled with how best to use something that provided no actual walls to its lightweight and non-specific features. Was it a social network? No. Social networks had friends lists and photo albums; Twitter didn’t. Instead, you followed or didn’t follow. There weren’t pokes, “Top 8s,” or college email requirements. Maybe it was a microblog? It could have been, but none of the standard blogging features like formatting were there. Just a simple, 140-character text box and this neat little feature called hashtags to organize all of the content floating around on the platform. The most useful, and in my opinion consequential, feature of […]
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5.5.2022 22:00My Opinion That Nobody Asked for on Elon Musk’s Twitter AcquisitionTo realize this opportunity, we need to start by taking an inventory of our resources and develop an understanding of how best to utilize them. A primary finite resource of our city is our land. We need to understand that regardless of our circumstances, the revenue required to maintain our city’s services and infrastructure both now and in the future will be generated within the seven and a half square miles that comprise our municipality. Is pavement and empty parking lots going to do that? Of course not. People are.
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13.8.2020 05:52Citizenship, Ergonomics, and the City of Brook ParkKeeping Business moving through Remote Tools, Preserving Company Culture, and Finding What Matters Along the Way Late last year, our company, emBold, a web + mobile design and development digital agency, had entered and were finalists in a contest by TechOhio to determine which Ohio small business had the best startup culture in the state. Of course, in our application, we mentioned all of the great things we did together: our office ping pong table, our Friday company lunches at various Akron eateries, and our in-office LAN parties where we brought our family and friends for game nights. Thinking back on it – those were all things that we did together, face to face. In a sense, we were like a family. Like most fortunate small businesses that were capable to operate remotely, we decided on Friday, March 13, to close our office amid the escalating situation with the coronavirus pandemic and work from home the following week. We did this not only for the health and safety of the company but also for those we love and our respective communities at large. In what seems like a month ago, we’re just entering into our second week at home. But again, it isn’t about just us. […]
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25.3.2020 16:00Fostering a Resilient Company, Community, and Culture